Fire alarm triggers evacuation at Missoula apartment complex, Missoula MT
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm at an apartment complex near Ellen Loop triggered an evacuation of residents. Fire crews arrived to investigate but found no smoke or flames. The alarm appeared to be activated by a fire curtain in front of an elevator. The situation is under investigation and no fire damage was observed.
Audio|Source: Missoula Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Please respond for a fire alarm near Ellen Loop, 11,
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112. Fire alarm near Ellen Loop. This is coming from somebody inside the apartment.
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They are getting evacuated, 11,
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112, fire alarm near Ellen Loop.
00:25
This is coming from a resident with an audible fire alarm, no smoke or flames present.
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Apartments are getting evacuated.
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Crossroads are Expo Parkway on Fire Channel 2 can be truan 6-720.
00:38
2 on you guys can uh hold off we'll check it up.
00:47
4 alarm got me.
00:54
Did get two people living near Ellen Loop out with an audible fire alarm, not seeing any smoke or flames?
01:02
Okay, copy that. We're just going to go with 141, 161 and myself, and we'll check out this complex.
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Okay.
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104, we'll clear off 11 and 112, 720.
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Dean,
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three-story,
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apartment complex, nothing turned from two sides, one wall will be on investigating.
01:34
It's 161.110.
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Yeah,
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go ahead.
01:40
Yeah, what you guys had near Ellen Loop?
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We'll go look for it. We'll go look for it.
01:53
...to the far west.
01:56
We've got strobes going off on that building.
02:05
Yeah,
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you're totally unreadable. That building.
02:29
Is the alarm panel indicating anything in that building?
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9-1-110. 110.
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110.
02:48
Yeah, one can is going to be on the scene and command.
02:51
We've got nothing showing from a four-story apartment complex from three sides.
02:55
We do have strobes and alarms going on.
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10-4[1]. Nothing showing strobes on all sides of 27-25.
03:07
And this is going to be near Ellen Loop.
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10-4[1].
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Oh,
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when you get into the five control mail room in the windows?
03:37
That's using the elevator or the alarm patrol panel to be able to silence this alarm.
03:43
There's an elevator curtain, looks like a fire curtain in front of the elevator that's down. I think that's what activated the alarm.
03:56
I can't reset it. I can't reset it.
Police codes explained
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10-4: Acknowledgment / Affirmative
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