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False fire alarm at commercial building near Crane Highway, Charles County MD

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Charles County, MD

A fire alarm was activated at a commercial building near Crane Highway. An employee on scene reported the alarm was set to test mode and there was no fire.

Audio|Source: Charles County Fire & EMS
01:36
Transcript:
00:00
Hawthorne Shopping, near Crane Highway.
00:04
Automatic fire alarm, commercial building. Which company once been alerted operation phone sent off the 2-757.
00:13
Engine 12 with 3.
00:17
Mr. Schulton up to.
00:23
Engine 12. Engine 12.
00:30
Chief 1.
00:33
Chief on top. Chief on after.
00:39
Chief One. Chief One.
00:40
Chief One. Chief One.
00:44
Chief One, engine 12. You can rain service.
00:51
Digital officers.
00:54
And service engine 12.
01:00
Tide Chief One.
01:02
Along company called back advising to downgrade the assignment.
01:05
I advise them that this is the second alarm of the morning and that we're going to continue in.
01:13
Perfect. Can you ask the thing that they have anybody on the scene from their company?
01:18
They do.
01:20
His first name is (name withheld).
01:21
He advised that he might have placed the alarm in test mode. It is in test mode now.
01:27
But he is on scene and they have repeat proper pass code multiple times.
01:32
Okay. I'm going to meet with them right now.
01:36
Thank you.

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