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Fire alarm triggered by water leak at college building, Wellesley MA

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/8/2025 12:57 PM

Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481

Fire units responded to a commercial fire alarm at 12 Norfolk Terrace near Wellesley College. Upon arrival, they found no fire, and a water leak was discovered to have triggered a smoke detector.

Audio|Heard on: Wellesley Police and Fire, AreaWide3, Metro Fire

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02:48

Transcript:

00:00

Fire, fire, commercial fire alarm, 12 Norfolk Terrace, Tower 2,

00:06

2,

00:19

2, 2,

00:20

3, engine 1, car 3.

00:28

Fire, commercial fire, 12 Norfolk Terrace, Tower 2, Q3, Engine 1, Car 3, Timeout, 1559.

00:49

Cut free sure you are unresponding.

00:54

This is box 1326 for ABC House at Wellesley College.

01:02

Tower 2 is responding.

01:06

Tower 2 is on responding, 1602.

01:14

Engine 1 responding.

01:17

Engine 1 responding. Engine 1 is responding, 1602.

01:22

Quint 3 is responding.

01:26

Quint 3 is on.

01:28

All apparatus on responding to Box 1326 for ABC House Wellesley College.

01:33

It's going to be 12 Norfolk Terrace.

01:35

This was received via the digitized 1602.

01:48

Engine was on arrival 12 Norfolk Terrace, not a three-story wood frame resident and you all would pass in the command.

01:59

Engine on arrival at 12 Norfolk Terrace, nothing showing from a three-story residential structure engine will be passing command at 1604.

02:10

Two,

02:11

Three, two, LF.

02:14

Freezing of 1232.

02:23

Engine one, two, car three.

02:28

Car three.

02:31

Water leaking into a smoke detector.

02:38

Received, engine one only.

02:43

Receive, car three, engine one only, clearing Quint 3 and the tower, 1605.

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Central St, Wellesley, MA 02481

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