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False fire alarm due to maintenance on Abbott StreetWorcester MA

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Abbott St, Worcester, MA 01602

According to the dispatch call, fire authorities responded to a fire alarm on Abbott Street in Worcester, which was found to be caused by maintenance and testing activities by the alarm company. The alarm was reset and no fire was present.

Audio|Heard on: Worcester City Fire and EMS
Listen to dispatch call
03:27
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 8 the fire alarm.
00:05
The channel was in alarm, just visual strode in the water bowl.
00:09
You had the electricity check-out and why it was an alarm and it wasn't in your end.
00:13
It's reset now, but there are work without seeing doing work.
00:17
Engine 8 will be clear and available.
00:18
Alarm reset.
00:21
Receive that.
00:22
You clear available at 860.
00:28
This time, engine 16 will be investigating.
00:30
Engine 16 has oral document.
00:33
The problem has it.
00:36
Engine 3 is level 1.
00:41
Engine 3, command.
00:45
Can you go ahead?
00:46
Yeah, 360 is complete.
00:48
Three stories in the red.
00:49
Nothing to have normal, nothing showing on the back.
00:52
We'll be staging.
00:55
Mayn't have that, thank you.
00:58
Scotry to file him.
00:59
File him.
01:01
Conchry in arrival, we leave engine 15 in command by they investigate.
01:05
File him, hazard.
01:06
File him, has it.
01:10
He's level one.
01:21
Isidate?
01:23
Put engineer back and recorded.
01:26
You back here. You back at 18.
01:33
Van the Fire Lump.
01:37
They have a coded lockbox on premises.
01:41
I'll stand by, somebody just showed up.
01:46
Receive, we don't have that in our comments for the left box info.
01:55
By two, call on command.
01:57
Come in.
02:00
Do you have a responsible party with you? We have a security guide out here, sitting.
02:07
Yeah, we're with this Brinkler company right now.
02:09
If they're doing testing, they should be on test, they said the company never related.
02:13
Engine 16 can handle.
02:19
On Abbott Street.
02:27
Engine 16, engine 3 on Abbott.
02:35
Dave, you want to go knock that at HAVA right now while everybody's already gearing up?
02:41
Absolutely, we'll head off the back.
02:44
16, a lot of two.
02:45
Receive that?
02:48
That's right. That's right.
02:55
The end of the street, first ponders, how about 820?
03:04
Vial.
03:10
Strait of the company to do a maintenance on this building at this time, we're going to be clearing.
03:14
They said they had already contacted their provider and are on test.
03:18
They're going to re-contact to confirm that.
03:21
Okay, yeah, we had this issue yesterday, the alarm company calling in every five minutes with the activations.

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Abbott St, Worcester, MA 01602

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Incident Timeline

  1. Event Closure
  2. Alarm Company and Maintenance Confirmation
  3. Lockbox and Responsible Party Identified
  4. Additional Engines Investigate
  5. Alarm Reset and Engine Availability
  6. On-Scene Investigation
  7. Initial Fire Alarm Activation

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