Fire alarm at airport hangar caused by shorted pump, West Mifflin PA
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Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a fire alarm at a hangar near Allegheny County Airport. Upon investigation, no visible fire was found. The cause was a shorted fire pump likely triggering a false alarm previously noted.
Audio|Heard on: Allegheny County Airport Authority - KPIT Fire Ops
Listen to dispatch call
01:51
Transcript:
00:00
County 114 shows on the land side of the big set hangar nothing evidence from the exterior we do have active trope going off approval going out to investigate
00:16
coffee not to investigate coffee not to turn it from the exterior active
00:30
Guy can show Crash 3 on the airside of the hangar.
00:40
Copy, I've gone.
00:46
Command from Crash 3.
00:50
Go ahead.
00:54
We're gonna make entry from our side.
00:58
Nothing's showing visibly through the window into the hangar.
01:01
We'll open up the doors for you on land side here.
01:08
As to see, we just got into the fire pump room.
01:14
The pump is shorted out, it looks like.
01:17
It doesn't seem like anything is flown in here, though.
01:24
That's copy. We silenced the alarm.
01:26
Like I said, I have visual through a window and the hangar.
01:29
There is nothing flowing inside the hangar.
01:33
Proceed.
01:43
Command from Crash 3.
01:46
Firefighter Kendall has advised me that this is the same alarm that they had the other night as well.
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Location mentioned:
Allegheny County Airport, West Mifflin, PA 15122
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