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False fire alarm at school caused by burnt popcornSauget IL

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Jerome Ln, Sauget, IL 62206

Fire department responded to a commercial fire alarm at Cahokia Community Unit School near Jerome Lane. The alarm was false and caused by burnt popcorn in the building. No fire or evacuation occurred.

Audio|Source: St. Clair County Fire
03:24
Transcript:
00:00
Attention,
00:01
Cahokia Fire, Allerton, 1111.
00:08
Attention, Cahokia Fire, Allerton, 1111, Camp Jackson, 1512, received our commercial fire alarm sounding,
00:15
near Jerome Lane, joined third floor fire zone 1,
00:21
called in by the alarm company.
00:24
Time moves up until 29.
00:29
Attention Cahokia Fire,
00:32
Rassan, commercial fire alarm,
00:35
sounding, Allerton, 1111, Camp Jackson, 1512, 1, near Jerome Lane, 4th floor fire zone 1 at 1129.
00:49
1400, I caught.
00:59
Fourteen hundred.
01:01
Yonstein, two-story elementary, school, nothing chilling, no evacuation, I'll be out investigating.
01:08
Sam. Sam.
01:14
15,
01:15
12.
01:17
1512. 1512.
01:23
Respond three times, 11.30.
01:25
12, you can stand by.
01:30
Copy 1400, Stinkholm-Words, Cam Jackson Fire, standing by.
01:39
Proppy, 1,400, standing by, Kim Jackson Fireby, he's standing by.
01:47
Tampful.
01:49
SMAX, 1400.
01:50
SMAX, 1400.
01:59
School name by chance.
02:06
It's just listed, Cahokia Community Unit School, near Jerome Lane.
02:16
Sanford.
02:20
The advisor,
02:22
there's no alarm that ever sounded here, and there's not a third floor here.
02:28
Ten-four. They got third floor zone one.
02:33
Sean Taylor is the key holder.
02:39
Ten for them.
02:45
By unit for clearing.
02:49
Negative. Not yet, ma'am.
02:51
I'm trying to make contact with the key holder and verify.
02:55
Ten-four. Ten-four.
02:59
I've made contact with the alarm company.
03:02
It could be the actual bus barn in the back of the school.
03:05
I'll be in-rout there to investigate.
03:06
1,400, 10-4[1].
03:15
Spatch 1400.
03:20
Call us alarm to be the burnt popcorn, all units in service.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgement / Affirmative

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Jerome Ln, Sauget, IL 62206

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