Fire alarm activated and investigated on Main Street, Cambridge MA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, a fire alarm was activated on Main Street in Cambridge. Responders investigated possible pre-action system activation or laboratory overpressurization. Building staff and rescue units were on scene, and the situation involved careful monitoring but no confirmed fire.
Audio|Heard on: Middlesex MA Fire-Talk Group Calls
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04:22
Transcript:
00:00
Everyone on location in command, channel 1414.
00:04
Command, a fire alarm.
00:09
Fire on Main Street, command.
00:11
Panel indicates pre-action activation of the road.
00:16
Ladder two will investigate.
00:20
And the radio cut out and missed the room number?
00:26
Show E.
00:33
Reporting box (number withheld).
00:37
Ladder 2 to investigate activation in room 2F, (number withheld).
00:42
Ladder 200 to command.
00:45
Roger.
00:51
There's some sort of unit in the car, but it's locked.
00:57
I think.
00:59
Can you tell us is it active right now?
01:13
That's affirmative.
01:18
All right, try to get as much information up there as possible.
01:23
I'll upgrade it.
01:24
I think the rescue is actually on the call though.
01:28
Can you identify? Hello,
01:33
I'm answering command.
01:36
Is the rescue tied up on another call right now?
01:43
Negative, rescue one's available.
01:47
Received. Can you stop it in on this?
01:50
I'll try to get some more information now.
01:53
Latitude's investigating, but they said they have.
01:57
They've been broadcasting in one of the rooms.
02:04
Received, send a rescue.
02:07
We had a lot of soup.
02:12
Yeah, sir.
02:17
Is there a hood active in that room? What you can see.
02:23
So they have one of the scientists on the line here, and he's saying what the rooms are under negative pressure.
02:29
He feels like this is just an overpressurization, and it should just be off-gassing until it satisfies itself.
02:42
Okay, so you have someone from the building up here with right now.
02:49
Yeah, that's a farmer.
02:52
All right, just trying to get as much information as we can right now and just stay out of that room.
03:01
Received. They're going to try and get someone with more equipment and exactly what might be going on with it.
03:10
Received.
03:14
Ladder 200 to command.
03:19
Security on scene is saying that the event is less than it was earlier, but it is still active.
03:36
Received. Do you need anything up there?
03:43
We don't have any meters that would probably be good.
03:51
Received, five.
03:55
We're in a lot of.
04:01
Hey, that's right.
04:05
Rescue has been dispatched to this while we're waiting for them.
04:09
Can you talk the security of whoever's up there from the building and try to get whatever information or paperwork you can on that?
04:22
3C.
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Location mentioned:
Main St, Cambridge, MA
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