Smoke odor reported at Walgreens found to be false alarm, Cambridge MD

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/13/2025 10:37 AM

Near Sunburst Hwy, Cambridge, MD 21613

Fire and emergency units responded to a smoke odor reported at Walgreens near Sunburst Highway. The building was evacuated and checked. Workers on the roof related to HVAC work caused the odor. No fire or hazard was found, and the alarm was false.

Audio|Source: Dorchester County Fire and EMS

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Transcript:

00:00

Station 1, Solvstation 30,

00:03

Airbeck 100, GM alarm, near Sunburst Highway.

00:11

Steelbox 1-1.

00:15

On that odor,

00:18

near Sunburst Highway.

00:23

Stilbox 1, Station 1, 12, Station 30,

00:26

Airbeck 100.

00:28

Under an odor,

00:30

near Sunburst Highway, Walgreens,

00:33

Respondal Attack 2A, 1338.

00:39

201, 1338, Spondon near Sunburst Highway, it's going to be Walgreens.

00:44

The odor smoke, it's not the break area room.

00:48

There is someone working on roof as well.

00:55

Okay, two point one zone,

00:57

one story commercial.

01:00

Building is evacuated, nothing evident off, so I go establish the command.

01:04

Okay,

01:09

sir, Chief One-one.

01:15

I might want to respondent.

01:17

(name withheld), he signed a near Sunburst Highway Walgreens for a sillbox response.

01:23

Call report is found a stranger under inside.

01:30

Go ahead, door trust me.

01:33

May contact with the SOAR manager, she may contact with the HVAC company that's working on the roof.

01:38

He advice to cancel your distance.

01:44

I was the store manager, I'm waiting to speak to the H-FAC.

01:47

Just hold off one of any further re-alerts to place the MS units available.

01:50

I was last in a couple minutes after I'll talk to him.

01:55

Copy, the new 40th time, Michael.

01:57

All right.

01:59

All right. There's a copy.

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Near Sunburst Hwy, Cambridge, MD 21613

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