False fire alarms triggered by stairwell maintenance, Rock Hill SC
Fire & ArsonMultiple fire alarms were triggered at an apartment building due to maintenance work sweeping the stairwells. Fire responders checked the building and found no fire. The smoke detectors were set off accidentally during cleaning, causing several false alarms. Fire crews stayed on site temporarily to monitor the situation.
Audio|Source: York County Fire and EMS
04:13
Transcript:
00:00
EMS1, Rock, you into two, party, two, fall, one, one, two, seven, men, or close drive, apartment 311, Tack 11. Call me a MES7. Go ahead. At Fort Proof. Copy. A man from 21. I went ahead and reset it.
00:25
It's showing all systems normal. We'll get a bit a few minutes to make sure it's not going to go back off. Copy. They stopped work. They're going to be covering the heads in this area. You can swing over where we're at staircase A on the B side of the alarm building. Copy that. That's the command. That's one here.
00:52
Asley closed, 73 Parko. Go ahead, sir. Just came in Zone 3, General Fire[1]. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Go ahead. The second floor is clear. Bobby, we have a reset on the system. Come on now.
01:18
That's 21. Yeah, 21 interior. Go ahead. Sybil. Can you come up to the second division? Sterewell-A? Take a look at some. Yeah, sir. You're on the second floor? Firewood.
01:42
Yeah, it'll take me just a second. I'm going to come up the stairwell. I'm back here on the CD corner right now. All right, copy. We're standing by on the landing. Are you in the front stairwell or the rear stairwell? Okay. Front side.
02:06
Not the command. Carcombe. Command's answering. You have another alarm for the facility. The fire with General Fire[1] Zone 10. Copy. We're working on it. Come. You have an efficient for the green. Copy.
02:30
All right, Connell Beth's command. Go ahead. All Bethle units will be assignment complete. F-21 is going to be left on scene dealing with maintenance supervisor.
02:42
Go ahead, sir. Receive another alarm showing zone one, general fire. Providence, sir. That's 21. Go ahead. I'm going to remain on scene for just a little while. They were sweeping out the stairwells and set the smoke head off. I'm going to stay on scene for just a little while until they get cleared out.
03:10
starting a dispatch until further. We have at least one more along that's going to go off.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
General Fire: General fire alarm activation
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Rock Hill, SC
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