False fire alarm at office building on North Rock Road, Wichita KS
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Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a fire alarm at an office building near North Rock Road. The alarm was a false alarm caused by a sprinkler system contractor testing the system.
Audio|Heard on: Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Resource / OPS-1
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02:5
Transcript:
00:00
Rate on TAC2, address near North Rock Road, this will be at...
00:05
You got water again? Midas.
00:07
Looks like the coverage is just fire alarm at the keypad.
00:12
No further information, it looks like.
00:17
Nearby near North Rock Road, Sweet 201, no physical hydrant has been located should a hydrant be needed.
00:26
Ops, show engine 12 making the call on South Night for the squad.
00:33
Ten-four.
00:39
If you are on Ops, are you direct on that?
00:45
Ten-four. Ten-four.
00:49
Ten-four, thank you.
00:56
Engine 10, what was originally, a sick person call has now changed to a priority one hemorrhage call.
01:02
(number withheld) North Wellesley Avenue.
01:06
Looks like this person has blood in their stool.
01:09
A 70-year-old male.
01:15
Oh, it's 177.
01:19
177.
01:20
177, go ahead.
01:23
Can you start animal control out here to this house fire? 10-4[1].
01:33
We'll be out in pescating.
01:36
Looks like we've got a construction crew.
01:39
Using boring machine method gas lines.
01:45
I'm from engine 18.
01:46
This is going to be a false alarm.
01:48
We've got a sprinkler system contractor here testing the system.
01:53
You can disregard all units and release TAC2.
02:01
104 false alarms, clearing all units and clearing TAC2.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment of message received and understood; affirmative response.
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Location mentioned:
N Rock Rd, Wichita, KS 67226
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