Fire alarm triggers at Central Exchange Building with no fire, Worcester MA


A fire alarm occurred at the Central Exchange Building near Main St. The responsible party was on scene. Fire crews investigated a sprinkler system water flow issue. No visible fire was found.
Audio|Source: Worcester City Fire and EMS
03:55
Transcript:
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Crowther, you respondent, near Main St, Central Exchange Building.
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The alarm company is receiving a general fire alarm.
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Responsible party, (name withheld), should be waiting on scene for you.
00:17
Great (name withheld).
00:18
General fire alarm at the Exchange Building responsible party on scene. We are responding.
00:30
Attention, engine 12 filling in 660 Main Street first responder. Engine 12, 660 Main Street first responder, timeout 1834.
00:53
Your report?
00:56
File on.
00:59
Five-story commercial building, alarm sounding, nothing's showing.
01:03
Engine at 13 is going to be investigating.
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Carter 3 will have a Main Street command. We're going to be in the offensive strategy.
01:11
We're going to hold the car to Simon.
01:13
Receive. Car 3, you're on arrival.
01:15
Engine 13 investigating offensive strategy.
01:18
Car 3, you have command 1835.
01:23
Engine 3 is level 1.
01:28
All right, three-thum-one.
01:43
126198, 38, 48, 47-year-old female chest pain and shortness for breath.
01:51
208, we have it, we responded.
01:55
1013 commands and follow up, please.
02:00
Commandant, 13, would you follow up?
02:05
Panel is reading sprinkler, Maine, water flow.
02:10
It's also shown that the system as,
02:13
looks like it's in trouble as well.
02:22
That is correct.
02:24
All right, last week we responded with Group 2, I believe it was the same alarm. Can you find out if they've had that issue look out?
02:37
T's 11, back in quarters.
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1838.
02:46
See in the command.
02:50
Command, enter.
02:52
Yeah, the responsible party stated is last time was possibly issues with the airclubs in the system.
02:59
I think we're going to go down and try to reset on the system.
03:07
Refuse.
03:13
Attention ladder 5 filling in 61 Raymond Street, first responder.
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Small zone arrival.
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1839.
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I'm 1839.
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The main panel is located on the trolley side and the base. I guess that's all where the instructor is. So we're walking down with the responsible party to check it out now.
03:51
Please. You, when you go there, just let me know if there's any sign of water flow or anything else in the system.
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Location mentioned:
Near Main St, Worcester, MA 01608
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