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Fire crews respond to alarm at downtown office tower

Heard on: Des Moines Fire/EMS
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Engine four, engine five, truck one, (number withheld) Grand Avenue,
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Ingersoll Ave, Des Moines, IA 50312
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As discussed during the dispatch call, firefighters were dispatched to a high-rise office building on Grand Avenue after an alarm was triggered. Smoke was reported in the elevator equipment room on an upper floor. The situation was described over the radio as a possible fire incident in the downtown area.

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