Medical device alarm triggers response at apartment, Wilmington DE
Fire units responded to an apartment where a medical device alarm was sounding. They confirmed it was an alert from a medical machine, not a fire or emergency, and requested to silence the alarm to avoid further unnecessary calls.
Audio|Source: Wilmington Fire
02:26
Transcript:
00:00
Commandable, did you say this was possibly coming from apartment 210?
00:07
That's a firm command.
00:09
That's what the security gave us.
00:22
If you can make your way up to 210, I'm getting information that's possibly a patient that A2 might have had earlier.
00:30
It's possibly her LVAD machine beeping inside the apartment if there's no other alarm sounding.
00:41
Actually out with the RPMEA, well, it's going to be one in the same.
00:49
All right, engine 2 officer, just staying on the B ladder 2 officer if you could verify.
01:05
Go ahead.
01:10
Seaside report.
01:11
Unsoiled and rear.
01:12
No conditions.
01:13
There's a basement.
01:14
The facilities are going to be on the opposite side.
01:19
Okay.
01:24
Letter two, officer, come out.
01:28
Go ahead, ladder two.
01:29
It's going to be an audible one from the LVAD battery machine.
01:42
Okay, is there any way to silence that so we don't keep getting called back or a negative?
01:51
That's wrong.
01:52
I'm trying to figure out now.
01:56
All right, Angel Warren, you can take up.
02:08
(name withheld), you invite 320th Street under control.
02:13
Units will be in the process of taking up.
02:15
Tiny T's available.
02:18
Receive, under control, 320 East Street, 233.
02:23
Yes, that's available.
02:26
This 2.
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Location mentioned:
Near N Market St, Wilmington, DE 19801
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