Malfunctioning medical alert unit causes false alarms, Los Angeles County CA


A faulty medical alert unit in an apartment near East Pinita is causing repeated false alarms. Dispatch said the unit cannot be reset until a technician arrives, so further alerts should be treated as false.
Audio|Source: Los Angeles County Fire - Dispatch 3
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Transcript:
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They want to 6 for the call that we're on right now.
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They've got a malfunctioning lifeline unit.
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We contacted their dispatch.
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They said they can't reset it. They have to send the technician out. So they said there's a possibility they're going to get false activations the rest of the night.
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So if we get a further activation from near East Pinita,
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unit 102, it's a false alarm.
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102nd St E, California
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