Fire alarm triggered during medical response at apartment, Cincinnati OH


Firefighters and medics responded to an apartment complex for a 68-year-old woman with abdominal pain. While there, a fire alarm activated. The responders attempted to silence and reset the alarm system, found a disabled detector, and traced a water leak that triggered the alarm. They bypassed the damaged device and confirmed there was no active fire.
Audio|Source: Cincinnati Fire
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Transcript:
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Engine 31, Medic 23 Respond, Cambridge Arms, near Eastern Hills Lane, unit 1316, cross route to Watson Road for a 68-year-old female with abdominal pain.
00:11
Farad, A-2.
00:13
Engine 31, Medic 23, Cambridge Arms, near Eastern Hills Lane, Unit 1316, for 68-year-old female with abdominal pain.
00:21
That is A2[1].
00:30
Lieutenant, are you on the lower garage?
00:36
Whatever the ground level is right here.
00:46
Bill, go for a reset.
00:49
I'm sorry, a silence.
00:57
That's clear.
01:00
I'm doing silence now.
01:06
Yeah,
01:12
they're going to need a bypass that device.
01:14
We've got UC file on the tech on here.
01:33
Will you able to get a silence on that?
01:44
This is my third time trying now, so I'm not sure why it's not silencing.
01:50
It was lit up when I got in here.
01:59
It might be a different panel.
02:01
There's another panel up this way too.
02:02
Oh, you got it.
02:07
A disabled dot detector.
02:10
Yeah,
02:13
we're trying to track down the water leak the cost.
02:18
All right, systems like a reset.
02:28
Well, Ken's going to have to bypass the device because it's ruined right now.
02:31
It's silver water.
02:35
I bypassed it.
02:41
The alarm's been bypassed up here.
02:47
We disregard.
02:51
Chad,
02:59
I think he's at the firehouse.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
A2: Low-priority medical response or designated fireground radio channel/talkgroup.
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Location mentioned:
Near Eastern Hills Ln # A, Cincinnati, OH 45209
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