Alarm triggered by street sweeper dust in parking deck
Fire & ArsonA heat detector alarm on the fourth floor of a parking deck was activated. Fire crews found dust from a street sweeper caused the alarm. Crews confirmed there was no fire or hazard. They could not reset the panel because the room code or lockbox code was not available.
Audio|Source: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
03:57
Transcript:
showing 4th floor of the parking deck. Activation, 842R[1]. And it's responding to 2,200 West Broad Street. You've had a slight address change to 2220 West Broad Street next door to the original, 842nd. instructor from the alpha bravo charlie side engine 12 is going to be going into a best key west broad street in the parking deck yes there is a street sweeper in the deck that's kicking up a lot of dust at twenty two thirty west broad street I'm gonna do a three six and make sure that this is the actual issue Richmond Coppies Battalion 2 is on scene with command. Investigating a street sweeper in the parking deck, 846 hours. Richmond from West Broad Street, Command, did this come in as an alarm at either address? West Broad Street, this came in from the alarm monitoring company called Direct, stated that there was a heat detector activation on the fourth floor elevator lobby of the parking deck. Our copy. We'll further investigate. I don't see any alarms at this address currently. Only the... dust from the street sweeper. We'll investigate further. 47 hours. Richmond Highway Command faulty compressor. 13 Truck 5 to handle truck 5's lieutenant has a command. Richmond Cappies 13 truck 5 to handle Richmond Highway. All of his return to service for the faulty compressor 847 hours. All right, Richmond, we verified the issue. Engine 10 to remain on scene. It's going to return to all other companies. No hazards. Richmond, Cappy. Engine 10 to handle West Broad Street. All the companies return to service 848 hours. Agent 10, Bravo and Charlie from Engine 10. Good. Fourth floor is clear. I can confirm it's the sweeper causing these alarms to go off. Can you get reset? We at the alarm panel. We need the code to get into the room. I copy. Is the young lady still with y'all? Yeah, she doesn't have the code for that. All right, there's a knox box here. We don't have a key. Do I need to call for another engine? The cache has a code for the lock. It's not a knockbox. It's a combination code. from Richmond.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
842R: Fire Alarm Activation
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Location mentioned:
Near W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23220
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