Alarm investigation at Broadway apartment complex, Chelsea MA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a fire alarm activation at a residential complex near Broadway in Chelsea. Upon arrival, the alarm was sounding but no fire was visible. A water gong in the garage area triggered due to a dry pipe sprinkler system issue. The alarm was determined to be a false activation related to the sprinkler system's water flow, and crews worked to shut down and drain the system.
Audio|Heard on: Chelsea Fire Dispatch
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03:29
Transcript:
00:00
Chelsea Box 3912 Auxiliary for near Broadway.
00:07
Response is Chelsea Engine 3, Engine 1, Ladder 2, Car 3.
00:12
It's Chelsea Box 3912 Auxiliary for near Broadway Apartments.
00:20
Response is Chelsea Engine 3, Engine 1, Ladder 2, Car 3.
00:23
Channel 2 is the fire ground.
00:30
Ladder two to fire alarm.
00:33
Come in, ladder two.
00:36
On scene near Broadway, alarm sounds and nothing showing.
00:40
We have a water gong activation.
00:45
Units on scene report alarm sounding, nothing showing, and water gong audible.
00:50
759.
00:56
Cross through to fire alarm.
00:59
It's in car three.
01:02
On Broadway with the company, it's car three command.
01:07
Car three, you're on scene with the companies.
01:08
You have Broadway command established 759.
01:15
Ladder two command.
01:22
We're at the first pipe of the garage.
01:33
Eight hundred hours.
01:34
Temperature is forty-two degrees.
01:36
WQHR 360.
01:43
I need.
01:50
The keys to the sprinkler room shut down in the sprinkler system.
02:00
Don't wait, command.
02:01
I'll start it off.
02:03
Fencing Broadway command.
02:07
Do you have any contact info for this location?
02:14
Be a negative, no info in our system.
02:20
Right, yeah.
02:21
We have a first pipe in the garage area of the dry pipe system.
02:25
Could send units out and block the low engine three and ladder two, and the flow will shut down like this.
02:34
Okay, are you reporting a pipe burst in the garage area?
02:37
All out on the box, pulling engine three and ladder two.
02:40
Turning company switch back to channel one, 802.
02:48
Ladder to the command.
02:52
Dry system shut down and draining.
03:03
Right out of it.
03:09
Broadway command, fire off.
03:12
Hello, answering Broadway command.
03:16
Believe this is a residential building, Chelsea neighborhood housing.
03:19
You hear them a call?
03:21
Have someone respond.
03:25
Fire alarm has that we'll reach out to site maintenance 806.
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Location mentioned:
Broadway, Chelsea, MA 02150
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