False fire alarm caused by medical device in apartment, Wilmington DE
Fire & ArsonFire units responded to a fire alarm at an apartment on East 6th Street. The alarm was caused by a patient's LVAD medical device beeping, not a fire. No fire was found.
Audio|Source: NCC Fire/EMS Countywide
03:17
Transcript:
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Attention units, the alarm at 320 East 6th Street, Apartment 210 for fire alarm.
00:05
Engine 2, Engine 1, Ladder 2, Battalion 2.
00:08
Attention all units to 320 East 6th Street, Apartment 210 for a high-rise fire alarm.
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Engine 2, Engine 1, Ladder 2, Battalion 2, turn out 23, 22.
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2.
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Contact building security, advisor, and informant at Apartment 210.
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Engine 2.
00:32
Engine 2.
00:38
What's your response?
00:42
Engine 2?
00:43
Oh,
00:48
We have a 90-story type 1 mobile plant.
00:50
We have a 90-story type 1 mobile plant.
00:51
I skate into a motor fuel in their rob.
00:55
10.2.3.6.
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I want to 1.
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Just follow that second switch.
01:01
Receive engine one.
01:03
Receive engine one.
01:07
I want to get into 2.
01:10
Receive engine 2.
01:16
All right.
01:19
She's like. She's like.
01:26
Command, did you say this was possibly coming from apartment 210?
01:33
That's what the security gave us.
01:38
That are too often.
01:44
Yeah.
01:49
You can make your way up to 210.
01:52
I'm getting information that it might be a patient with a device that was here earlier.
01:57
It is possibly an LVAD machine beeping inside the apartment if no other alarm sounds.
02:04
All right, I'll match you with the response unit and the lobby.
02:07
It will be one to see.
02:08
Engine two officer, stay in the lobby. Ladder two officer, please verify.
02:19
Do you command?
02:27
Go ahead.
02:30
Run stories in the way here, no conditions, basement present.
02:38
Utilities are on the opposite side.
02:43
Person outside casino at 777 Delaware Park Boulevard.
02:49
2330. Okay.
02:52
That's your officer from you.
02:55
What is that or two?
02:56
It's going to be an audible sound from the LVAD machine.
03:02
Okay. You are silent so we avoid repeated calls.
03:09
That's what we're figuring out now.
03:15
All right, as you want, you can take up.
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Location mentioned:
Near E 6th St, Wilmington, DE 19801
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