False fire alarm at wellsburg apartment complex, Wellsburg WV
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire departments responded to a fire alarm activation at an apartment complex near Commerce Street in Wellsburg. The alarm company later confirmed it was a false alarm, so all units were canceled.
Audio|Heard on: Brooke County Sheriff, Wellsburg and Follansbee Police Dispatch
Listen to dispatch call
02:38
Transcript:
00:00
Attention, Wellsburg, Franklin Fire.
00:07
Okay, 7-0-4.
00:14
Ours 905 Department, near Commerce Street, fire alarm activation, unity.
00:20
That works.
00:25
Tension, Wellsburg, Franklin Fire, and each going to respond.
00:30
Near Commerce Street, Wellsburg to be you in the apartments for fire alarm activation.
00:36
Third.
00:40
It's going to be the third floor sprinkler.
00:43
Time of ten, eleven o'clock.
00:46
One and five.
00:48
(name withheld).
00:50
One of five, we can't copy you.
00:57
105 standing down from 29 Bruin Drive en route to the other call.
01:03
104105 you're standing down Bruin Drive en route to near Commerce Street 1101.
01:13
From 47 out we out of Park High School.
01:17
Down for 47 out of Park High School 1101.
01:24
7-direction.
01:27
104. Station 7 Direct 1101.
01:39
Unit Columbrook, can you repeat?
01:52
All units responding to near Palmer Street for the alarm company, all units can disregard time is going to be 1103.
02:06
Ready, Jackson.
02:11
10 from 30, you're going to be direct.
02:17
Station 10 to brook.
02:20
Station 10.
02:21
Can you repeat that last transaction?
02:27
The last transmission is going to be you can disregard.
02:30
Disregard that call at near Commerce Street, the fire alarm, per the alarm, per the alarm company.
02:35
This is a false alarm.
02:36
Your cancel time is 11.04.
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Location mentioned:
Commerce St rear, Wellsburg, WV 26070
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