False fire alarm triggered by damaged suppression system line, Concord NC


Fire department responded to a fire alarm at near Concord Pkwy S. The alarm was triggered by accidental damage to a fire suppression system line, causing water flow and activation of the fire pump. No fire was found; it was a false alarm.
Audio|Source: Cabarrus County, Concord, Harrisburg, and Kannapolis Fire Departments
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Transcript:
00:00
Trying ones on scene, Gulf the side, making 360.
00:03
The rest of your command, we're about here but an alarm panel, just check on anything.
00:07
Yeah, if you want to verify, they think they hit a line in the fire loop and possibly triggered the fire pump.
00:16
We're going to follow security to that site where they're going to lead us to.
00:19
Release everything to non-emergency.
00:21
Copy, I'll come in.
00:22
Just fine. You can release to non-emergency.
00:23
Thirteen 43. Command safety one's on something.
00:25
Command, (number withheld), the fossil arm, return all companies through the exception of Engine 3, Rescue 3.
00:29
All companies, you've been released back in there for the false alarm, engine three rescue three.
00:33
1345. Come out, rescue three.
00:35
Go ahead, rescue three. Go ahead.
00:36
If you can set SCV-08-08 valve, post-indicator valve in front of building one key to the locks and the Knoxbox.
00:49
Man, if you repeat that number,
00:51
it's a post-indicator valve.
00:52
It's SCV, Sam Charles Vickers 08.
00:56
Last two. Fire 61.
00:57
These hits the Siloop fight at Eli Lilly,
01:04
which is awesome.
01:06
Exterior flooding, had the fire pump activate.
01:10
The river's responsible for this area.
01:13
Can they come out here and assist them with getting this system back in the order?
01:17
Yeah, I'm about, probably less than 10 away.
01:19
I'll head out there.
01:20
Who am I meeting on site out there?
01:22
(name withheld), the August of the head of security, but they've got a whole slew of huts out here.
01:26
Now, I can wait on you, engine three.
01:29
Hey, for you guys around at the pump house.
01:31
We're at the actual excavation site,
01:33
behind building one.
01:34
Come around past the fire pump,
01:37
around the back, and around to the, what would be a broader side of the whole plant.
01:43
I'm leaving ground center right now, so give me just a few minutes.
01:46
I'll be headed that way.
01:47
Got it. 6.1.5 cordonauts 2.
01:51
Go ahead.
01:52
You're right, Lily.
01:53
Up, I was broken 51.
01:54
Very good man.
01:59
Go ahead. It's located S-B-S-V-0-8 post-indicator valve, confirming shut that off.
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Location mentioned:
Concord Pkwy S, Concord, NC 28027
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