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Fire alarm at apartment building from cooking incident

Heard on: Berks PA Fire-Tac Group Calls
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There's your South 4th Street Kennedy Towers fire alarm zone 993.
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Perkiomen Ave, Reading, PA 19606
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Fire crews respond to a fire alarm at Kennedy Towers on South 4th Street. They confirm the alarm is coming from an upper-floor apartment where someone is cooking with an air fryer, causing the alarm to activate. Multiple units arrive, verify the apartment number, and determine the alarms are related to the same cooking incident rather than a larger fire.

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