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Fire alarm investigated at high-rise on East WaltonChicago IL

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audio iconFire & Arson
E Walton St, Chicago, IL 60611

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews investigated an automatic alarm at a high-rise near East Walton in Chicago. Units found no active fire and reported a possible malfunctioning detector. All responding units were later released when nothing appeared to be burning.

Audio|Heard on: Cook IL Fire Dispatch Group Calls
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01:9
Transcript:
00:00
Ninety-eight available for an automatic and a high-rise.
00:02
Ninety-eight negative, they're with the ambulance still.
00:07
Sign one means Brian one.
00:10
Sign one, the 1st sign.
00:13
Ninety-eighty-eight, go ahead with that fire alarm.
00:15
Where is it? All right, near East Walton.
00:17
Near East Walton to the automatic on the high-rise.
00:22
Forty-two has covered stay home engine forty-two.
00:25
Recurrent.
00:28
Ninety-five to me.
00:29
Ninety-five.
00:32
We met some workers there.
00:33
They have a bad meter or a bad detector.
00:35
We took some readings anyway, got zero, so we're going to be returning.
00:38
Truck twenty-nine to main.
00:42
You can hold them up.
00:43
They're just sleeping.
00:46
Truck twenty-nine, Massachusetts people will be on the line.
00:49
Now, unit is near East Walton.
00:52
We got an approximately twenty-ninth story fire resistant high rise for westbound checking a fire alarm office.
01:00
We got command and accountability.
01:03
That's the C ninety-eight year westbound with nothing showing in the mirror.
01:07
Ninety-eight, I mean, hold them up.

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E Walton St, Chicago, IL 60611

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