Automatic fire alarm at dulles airport gate b50, Dulles VA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/14/2025 05:56 AM

Gate B50, Dulles, VA 20166

An automatic fire alarm was activated near gate B50 at Dulles Airport. Fire units responded but no smoke or flames were seen. The alarm was reported at the AeroTrain station area by the Bravo Gate. The cause of the alarm was not confirmed.

Audio|Source: Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Public Safety

03:11

Transcript:

00:00

Engine 302 Box 30214.

00:05

Automatic fire alarm.

00:07

Road 4481-5, IAD.

00:11

Gate B-72.

00:13

On Channel 3, Bravo.

00:25

There is an active fire alarm going off near the Bravo 50 area ground level.

00:35

Copy said Bravo 50 gate area.

00:37

I think it's the Bravo 50-gate area.

00:42

I think you're probably.

00:47

Two-24.

00:52

I'm trying to send me one in the name that you're sending me to.

00:57

Copy.

00:59

31, do you see these smoker flames?

01:06

Do you see smoke or flames?

01:19

That's a negative.

01:20

I'm not standing down here on the ground level.

01:27

2431, we have fire in route.

01:31

We're on the reference.

01:36

Fire permission 302.

01:40

Engine 3.2.

01:43

Are you getting anything on your fire panel yet, or is it still?

01:48

Addison.

01:53

That's a negative.

01:56

We're not receiving anything like to save the panel.

02:01

Okay, there the alarm is going out throughout the problem gate for at the AeroTrain.

02:10

Thirty-one of them.

02:13

Thirty-one alpha. Thirty-one alpha-oh.

02:20

Vives, I'm gonna be in the terminal for training with a dispatcher.

02:22

I'm gonna be away from my cruiser.

02:24

So be available calls, which may just take me a little bit longer.

02:30

Copy, 859. Training with ECT.

02:34

ECT. C.

02:40

59. A.59.

02:44

There was any potential from a fire department.

02:51

This is AeroTrain Central.

02:54

AeroTrain Central, this is a firecomber.

02:57

Are you having any fire alarms going on in the Bravo Gate train station?

03:04

That's affirmative.

03:06

We received a notification from the technician.

03:10

Overall fire alarm.

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