Smoke detector alarm sounds in demolished building rubble, Jersey City NJ
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to smoke alarms sounding in rubble near Palisade Avenue. They found a smoke detector buried under debris from a recently demolished building. No fire or hazard was visible, and the detector could not be accessed.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Fire
04:30
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 11 from Battalion 3.
00:04
Engine 11 answering.
00:08
Go on the Aizen side, this is on Azen.
00:14
Engine 11 received.
00:27
Command from Engine 11, we're on the Hagen Avenue side.
00:30
We're going to canvass the area.
00:31
I'll give you more in a minute.
00:35
We'll move under 11th.
00:42
This back from engine 11, were you giving address for Ogden Avenue side?
00:52
Engine 11, that's 3.69, Ogden.
00:59
Engine 11 receives.
01:12
Command from engine 11.
01:13
It's all clear on this side.
01:15
We believe it might be smoke detectors in the debris from the building that was turned down.
01:23
Received engine 11.
01:25
We have it on this side.
01:26
You can go on service.
01:27
This is I'm going to release engine 11.
01:29
This is at the scarred smoke along, on top of rubble.
01:33
The bullet that was recently demolished.
01:39
Three, Steve.
01:40
Hens is 11 in your back in service.
01:42
This radio is your fast one.
01:47
13 from 22.
01:49
We're going to be first, but just go ahead, bump us up.
01:51
We'll be all right.
01:54
All right, receipts.
02:06
Dispatch 22's on a team.
02:08
Four-story, ordinary, nothing visible to be investigating.
02:11
Doesn't seem like the alarm is sounding.
02:18
Really easy, 22.
02:20
You're on the scene, it's happening.
02:39
Receive and thank you.
02:41
Let me come in.
02:44
Command 22.
02:47
Good, point in.
02:50
Chief, your arm panel is showing normal.
02:52
One of the residents said that it's a smoking detector going off in the 4th floor apartment.
02:58
I'll let you know.
03:00
B.C.
03:07
Pal, they have for a ginger 14.
03:14
This is a detector that's buried under use of rubble.
03:19
I'm not going to be able to get to it.
03:24
Come up.
03:35
Command 22.
03:39
Yes, 22.
03:44
Receive.
03:50
Receive. We can hear alarms going off outside, maybe it's another building room.
04:05
The crash of Palisade Avenue, man.
04:11
Go your message, command.
04:16
Near Palisade Avenue.
04:18
This is a smoke alarm that was probably in the building while they were demolishing it.
04:23
It's at the bottom of the rubble.
04:24
The rubble is about 15 feet high with a backhoe on top of it.
04:28
No way for us to access this.
04:29
There's nothing we can do here.
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Location mentioned:
Near Palisade Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07307
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