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Fire alarm manually triggered at a building on south Duff Avenue, Ames IA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/12/2025 03:35 PM

Near S Duff Ave, Ames, IA 50010

Fire department responded to a manually triggered alarm at a building near South Duff Avenue in Ames. No fire was found after investigation.

Audio|Source: City of Ames Fire and EMS

01:17

Transcript:

00:00

Automatic alarm.

00:02

Truck 3, near South Duff Avenue, cross off southeast 5th Street and Chestnut Street, S-T-A-C-2.

00:13

Automatic alarm,

00:15

Near South Duff Avenue, F-TAC2.

00:31

Hey, it's truck three.

00:34

Truck three.

00:37

Truck three.

00:39

You can't just show truck three en route.

00:47

Copy. They're unsure which suite this is coming from, it's coming from a manual pole station west door.

00:54

You'll be on tacked to.

00:56

Truck three, guys.

01:03

Hey, the truck three.

01:06

Hi.

01:11

You see the truck three arriving on the scene near South.

01:14

We'll have stopped up and we'll be investigating.

01:16

We should fire attack too.

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Near S Duff Ave, Ames, IA 50010

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