Smoke detector triggers response at single-story residence, Dover DE

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/11/2025 11:52 AM

Near Dyke Branch Rd, Dover, DE 19901

Fire crews responded to a smoke or carbon monoxide detector activation at a single-story residence near Dike Branch Road, Hickory Dale Drive, and Rush Drive. No fire was found and the crews replaced the detector batteries. Situation is under control.

Audio|Source: Kent Fire/EMS Countywide

02:30

Transcript:

00:00

Arrival 42-3, single story, residential.

00:05

Nothing evident from the A, B,

00:08

and B side.

00:10

42-3 is all the same, nothing to have it, 14-52.

00:13

Tower 42, all of it.

00:17

Tower, 42, 14-52.

00:19

3.42, I'm saying.

00:20

Mercy, Charlie, 42.

00:26

Mill 53 of Downalpane, near Dike Branch Road between Hickory Dale Drive and Rush Drive, 1455.

00:33

(redacted)

00:40

355. I could stand the Tacker 42nd, Tiger 42.

00:47

Tagger 42.

00:53

The Weishman, the Weissman, the Heathrow.

00:56

You come in, Lakewood, that one.

00:59

Which is our interior to command.

01:02

Good.

01:07

Opener aside, a possible policy detector.

01:10

We're changing the battery detector.

01:11

We're changing the matter of suspicion now.

01:13

Okay.

01:14

Okay,

01:17

14-50 on.

01:20

Photo crew, Jackson.

01:26

Copy. Copy.

01:27

Matter,

01:32

condition.

01:33

I work for changes.

01:34

Matter. Under control.

01:37

Okay. Lakewood command.

01:39

Unlike command.

01:45

Under control factor, we're in the service that you can return tackle 42.

01:52

It could explain control returning tanker visits in 100 hours.

01:57

Forty-three get time.

02:03

Forty-two, sir.

02:05

Forty-two, sir.

02:08

Forty-two, it's clear.

02:12

See turn back over to the home error.

02:15

Command terminated.

02:17

Thursday, 42 units 1503.

02:21

303.

02:23

Tril and 4.2.

02:24

Time in it, clear, right.

02:26

Okay, I'm at 5.1.

02:29

We received Charlie 42.

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Near Dyke Branch Rd, Dover, DE 19901

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