False fire alarm at a large apartment complex, West Des Moines IA
Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a fire alarm at a large three-story apartment near University Ave Ste 101. Upon arrival, no smoke or fire was visible. Maintenance confirmed no fire was present. The alarm was likely caused by a malfunction or a self-cleaning oven in one of the units. No evacuation was necessary.
Audio|Source: Westcom Fire and EMS Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Units responding near Holcomb per PD, nothing seen upon arrival, just had RP call back in who had contact for maintenance, maintenance claims no smoke and no fire.
00:16
425, copy.
00:20
1809.
00:29
Letter 4.25.
00:33
Right on scene of the large, three-story apartment complex, wood frame, nothing showing on arrival, no evacuation.
00:41
Letter 425 will be establishing Holcomb Command.
00:44
You're out to investigate.
00:46
Contact 5.
00:51
Copy arrived three-story apartment building wood frame nothing showing no evak rider 425 established the Holcomb command out to investigate on attack five.
01:05
428 from command go ahead for 428.
01:13
You guys do recon on the first and second floor.
01:16
We're going to proceed to the third floor.
01:17
We've got a trouble alarm.
01:30
Ambulance 413, engine 411, fall 4028 64th Street.
01:37
Ambulance 413, engine 411, fall 4028 64th Street.
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Cross streets are Airline Avenue and Prairie Avenue.
01:48
Timeout, 1813.
01:49
Let's go Ails for their games around.
01:57
425, engineer from command.
02:01
Go ahead.
02:04
Can you see if he'll take a reset for those trouble alarms? Yeah,
02:11
we'll try a reset.
02:17
Commit. Rescue 428.
02:21
Go ahead.
02:24
Everything that's good on the first floor.
02:29
Yup.
02:35
She is responding to 402864th Street on a fall.
02:39
First party alone, 83-year-old female conscious and breathing fell, hit her head, and is bleeding from the head.
02:46
She is now inside the home.
02:49
I'm not wondering he said.
03:01
Did you say it will not reset or it did?
03:06
Copy negative on the reset, still getting in trouble.
03:13
What is it saying?
03:19
Pretty much seeing all the living spaces, bedroom, living rooms,
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apartments, all the third floor apartments,
03:30
303 through 313, 315.
03:38
It just says trouble for the living areas in each of those units, correct?
03:47
That's like living room and bedrooms.
03:53
Command. That's the 428.
03:58
Go ahead.
04:00
Do we have any alarms going off for room 212? I don't know.
04:09
425 engineer to you.
04:10
Let us know about that.
04:15
What was the room number?
04:19
Room number was 212.
04:23
Haven't seen anything for 212 come across yet.
04:28
We had a resident on the second floor who said she heard the self-cleaning alarm go off in room 212.
04:41
Self-cleaning video oven.
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Location mentioned:
Near University Ave Ste 101, West Des Moines, IA 50266
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