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Fire alarm at Winter St building caused by workers

Heard on: Waltham Fire
04:46
00:00
And we're transmitting 3528 at 1057 .
audio iconFire & Arson
Winter St, Waltham, MA 02451
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Fire crews respond to a fire alarm at an eight-story residential building near Winter Street. The alarm panel shows activation on upper floors, including a smoke detector in the garage area. Maintenance staff and management report that workers doing drywall work accidentally set off the alarm when they covered a detector. The fire panel is silenced and reset, and the incident is cleared as an accidental activation with no fire found.

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