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Fire Alarm Triggered by Battery Change Near Palmer St, Durham NC

Fire & Arson

Reported: 10/24/2025 05:42 AM

Near Palmer St, Durham, NC 27707

A fire alarm was activated near Palmer Street, Durham. Fire units responded and found the alarm was due to a battery change, not an actual fire.

Audio|Source: Durham City Fire

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Transcript:

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Fire alarm, near Palmer St

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Fire alarm, near Palmer St Fire alarm, near Palmer St, Cross of Ripley Street and Chapel Hill Road, engine one, ladder, two.

00:18

Get out of channel three out of three.

00:29

Captain, near Wabash Street.

00:35

Check pane, near Wabash Street, Cross of Midway Avenue and East Lawson Street, Henson, 4.

00:48

Off Channel 4, Office 4.

01:00

Matter 2 from engine 1, you clear the call. Looks like it went off because they were changing the battery.

01:05

We'll continue.

01:16

Ladder to you come.

01:25

Communications, you can clear the office channel. We'll go back to the city far.

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Near Palmer St, Durham, NC 27707

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