Fire alarm at North Park Elementary was a drill, Grand Rapids MI
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm sounded at North Park Elementary Community Center, but it was confirmed to be a scheduled school fire drill. Emergency responders were initially dispatched but later stood down after learning it was a drill.
Audio|Source: Kent County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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At (number withheld) Wellerwood Street, Northeast.
00:02
North Park ECC at Wellerwood.
00:05
Respond on Channel 2.
00:10
That's Rescue 2. Are we closer than Rescue 1?
00:17
Just pass from Italian 5.
00:21
Italian 5,
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you can stand down. Battalion 6 is clearing there.
00:25
Current alarm.
00:27
Italian 5 is 10.4.
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Copy.
00:50
Rescue. Rescue 2.
00:51
Fire alarm.
00:53
District 9.
00:54
At (number withheld) Wellerwood Street, Northeast.
00:56
North Park ECC at Wellerwood. Respond on Channel 2.
01:04
See 9 Disregard.
01:09
Just regard.
01:14
In 241, Sedenda, Belmont Station for detail, please.
01:23
Sign 6, from dispatch.
01:29
Echo incidents, one of our firefighters,
01:31
has a spouse who works at the school, they say they're doing a drill.
01:39
Okay,
01:40
you can drop this down to just the first company myself since I'm so close.
01:45
Message received.
01:47
Ladder 1 and the 96 to continue engine 8, rescue 2 you can both stand down.
01:56
Time out, 953.
02:04
Rescue 2. Assist, non-urgent.
02:07
District 3, at (number withheld) 7th Street Northwest.
02:12
Respond on Channel 1.
02:28
Call on my thing. Am I getting redirected to 7th?
02:36
You're not going to meet up on Waterwood. They were just doing a drill.
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Location mentioned:
N Park St NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525
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