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Fire responders confirm false alarm at Berkeley school, Berkeley CA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 10/28/2025 07:39 AM

Near Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

Emergency responders went to a commercial fire alarm near Allston Way, Milvia Street, and Martin Luther King Jr. Way at a large school building. After investigation, they found the alarm was triggered by the same sensor as a previous incident. No fire or emergency was detected on site.

Audio|Source: Berkeley Police and Fire

01:47

Transcript:

00:00

Engine 2 and truck 2 respond to commercial fire alarm.

00:04

At near Allston Way, cross streets are Milvia Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way

00:10

Way. Engine 2 confirming you're in route.

00:15

Sorry, code 1[1], can you landline disk up, please?

00:21

Copy. Item 2-4, we'll take the transport at 7th and Carlton.

00:34

Adam 4, I'll show you to me.

00:35

Four, I'll show you to me.

00:37

Four, copy.

00:43

Calling alarm is activated will be investigating.

00:49

I did check I'll be large multi-building school and nothing showing alarm is activated will be investigating.

00:58

4-1 channel 2 for us then.

01:04

All right.

01:07

Hey, I think these guys are gonna go ahead and handle it, so we should be called for.

01:10

I appreciate it.

01:11

Sorry to bring you down to this.

01:15

That's okay.

01:16

We wanted to see it.

01:21

Step 4.

01:23

She's welcome to come walk this.

01:29

Engine 2, truck 2.

01:30

We'll head down at the Donahue Gym.

01:34

Copy that. We're making contact here with administrators.

01:36

They say it's the same sensor as the previous activation and they don't see anything going on down there.

01:44

But they don't know which sensor it is.

01:46

So we're going to go verify the panel.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

code 1: Routine, non-emergency response without use of lights or siren.

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Location mentioned:

Near Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

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