False fire alarm caused by forklift impact on detector, Chelsea MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/12/2025 02:20 AM

Market St, Chelsea, MA

Fire crews responded to a fire alarm at a property near Market Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The alarm was triggered when a forklift accidentally hit a heat detector inside a cooler. There was no fire or damage, and the alarm was false.

Audio|Source: Chelsea Fire Dispatch

02:45

Transcript:

00:00

Market Street's block, 218 well, we've got to get it moved.

00:04

All right, it's quiet.

00:12

Call one, far along.

00:14

You're telling us.

00:17

On C, 95, Market Street.

00:19

A lot of sound, nothing shown, TOWO, LELA, man.

00:24

Nobody's unseen, al-O-O-O-M sounding, nothing shown, TOW-1, you're establishing Market Street Command.

00:31

So, CILC file, I'm standing by at 521.

00:41

I just put the TAL-1 for.

00:43

All-1.

00:45

I have a heat again.

01:00

All right, alarm system won't reset that damage,

01:05

obviously.

01:08

Well, possibly, nothing I can see.

01:09

It's about 25 feet in the air.

01:13

No visible damage, but you think he hit it with the support list.

01:22

Let me give it one more shot and then we'll...

01:26

Tap the government, the alarm company, are you?

01:32

Okay.

01:35

All right,

01:40

let's take it up.

01:43

I just put it down, we'll make it that way out.

01:46

There's no visible damage to it, so we have three or four.

01:50

I'm please, I don't know if you can get up the answer out there.

01:54

Yeah, I'm speaking with them right now.

02:03

Locker Street, command of firewall.

02:06

Let alone answer.

02:09

We had a heat detector in the cooler.

02:13

Possibly struck by a forklift.

02:20

Property owner on the scene is going to hide and get the alarm copy already have put it out repaired.

02:25

Companies will be in service.

02:26

You can terminate block to your command.

02:30

Bylam has that message, alarm caused by a...

02:35

Detector and the cooler,

02:38

possibly struck by a forklift,

02:40

companies returning in service, terminating market street command.

02:43

Chelsea Fileum at 526.

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