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False fire alarm in dorm room at Shocker Hall, Wichita KS

Fire & Arson

Reported: 08/31/2025 08:14 PM (PDT)

Near Perimeter Rd, Wichita, KS 67208

A fire alarm went off in a dorm room at Shocker Hall, Wichita State University. The alarm was checked and found to be false, so emergency units were canceled.

Audio|Source: Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Resource / OPS-1

02:54

Transcript:

00:00

Entropies on scene have Hillside Command. Healthside Command at 2214. Start to check a smoke detector, 2020 North Perimeter Road, Room 004, Station 14.

00:17

And squad 14 to check a smoke detector, 2020 North Perimeter Road, 2.220 North Perometer Road. It's going to be building bees and boy, room 0.004. To check a smoke detector, squad 14, your map pages 54749. I was from engine 14. Is this going to be a check smoke detector on an individual unit or is this a fire alarm going off inside of a business?

00:45

This is going to be a fire alarm going off inside one of the dorm rooms. For as Wichita State, PD been notified. Calling party was Wichita State Dispatch requesting a fire response. For Building B, room 004, Shocker Hall.

01:09

Good for? Let's dispatch that out as a systems alarm on a business. Copy that, balancing now. Did we do a business or a high-rise system's warm? I'm balancing it to a high-rise. Copy that, thank you.

01:31

Start for what is now a system alarm on a high rise at 20... Start for what is now a system alarm on a high rise, 2020 North Perimeter Road. This is going to be Shocker Hall, Building B, Room 004, Stations 1 and 14.

01:51

Battalion 1, Engine 1, Engine 14, Squad 14, and Truck 1 for a system alarm on a high-rise, 2020, North Perimeter Road, Wichita State, Shocker Hall, Building B, Room 0-0-0-04, for a system alarm on a high-rise. Battalion 1, Engine 14, Squad 14, and Truck 1, Your map page, 5749. Operate 1, Tech 1, on arrival. Operations for Rescue 2.

02:18

We've been disregarded by WSUPD. You can put everybody back in service, clear the tech.

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Near Perimeter Rd, Wichita, KS 67208

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