Commercial fire alarm caused by burnt food, Cortland NY

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/15/2025 03:15 PM

Near Port Watson St, Cortland, NY 13045

A commercial fire alarm at a business on Port Watson Street was caused by burnt food, with no fire found on exterior. Fire units investigated and confirmed the cause as burnt food triggering the alarm.

Audio|Source: Cortland County Public Safety

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Transcript:

00:00

Coral Station, Florida Monitor, 51, 4Watson.

00:07

Crown Station, court monitors, near Port Watson Street for commercial fire alarm, indicators zone 1 for a general fire alarm.

00:13

Crown Station, Portland monitors,

00:16

near Port Watson Street,

00:18

for commercial fire alarm, indicator zone 1, general fire alarm, Cross Street, 3rd Church Street, and Greenbush Street, 1815.

00:29

Byrdest, that's 264, I'll be rooped.

00:32

Copy 264, you're in room.

00:40

...headcore is in room.

00:42

Headcore is in route.

00:45

No, mobile.

01:00

So let me copy on scene.

01:05

Fire control, according to you, it's arriving on C.

01:07

near port watching, nothing showing exterior, investigating.

01:13

Copy, you're arriving.

01:14

Nothing showed exterior.

01:15

You're investigating.

01:20

I control to Quarling Command.

01:25

264, go ahead.

01:32

Corley Command, we're receiving a second call from inside, near Port Watson.

01:38

Department number (number withheld) for burnt food.

01:43

I'm sorry, I got (number withheld), what was the other?

01:47

For burnt food for the cause of the alarm?

01:51

Copy burnt food, thank you.

01:53

Do you want to copy our control?

02:03

Team 1, Bowers, Fox, we copy dispatchment.

02:13

Command Team 1 is going to be a parvene (number withheld) for a smoke detector activation.

02:20

(number withheld), the Coral Note at the PSV.

02:24

Racing.

02:26

Happy that (number withheld), let's say you can't help you to possibly burn food.

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Near Port Watson St, Cortland, NY 13045

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