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Burnt toast triggers apartment fire alarm

SE Delaware Ave, Ankeny, IA 50021 - 6/15/2026 06:17 AM

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews were sent to an apartment building on Southeast Delaware Avenue for a reported fire alarm. Radio traffic indicates an elderly woman in one of the units may have burned toast, setting off the alarm, and responders were requested to help reset the system. No active fire or injuries were clearly reported in the radio transmission.

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Polk County, Dallas County, and Warren County Public Safety and ISP
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00:00
Tower 115, fire alarm, (place withheld), (place withheld).
00:07
Tower 115, fire alarm, (place withheld), (place withheld), between Southeast Ulemar Drive and Southeast Third Street.
00:17
Response one, time out, 0818.
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