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False smoke alarm at Fleetwood Drive buildingElgin IL

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Near Fleetwood Dr, Elgin, IL 60123

Fire crews responded to a smoke detector alarm at a residential building near Fleetwood Drive in Elgin. No smoke, fire, or active alarms were found, and it was determined to be a false alarm.

Audio|Source: Elgin Fire
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Transcript:
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POMOOVo
00:02
Engine 4, engine 6, engine 7, Clint 2, ambulance 4, and Battalion 1.
00:10
Smoke detector activation,
00:13
135,
00:14
Fleetwood Drive, Unit 3 RDFLR, between Amanda Circle and South McLean Boulevard.
00:21
Timeout 1610 Engine 4, Engine 6, Engine 7, Clint 2, Ambulance 4, and Battalion 1 Smoke detector activation.
00:34
near Fleetwood Drive.
00:37
Unit 3RDSLR.
00:40
LR. You know,
00:46
as responding,
00:47
near Fleetwood Drive.
00:49
It's going to be possibly from a third floor, third floor at the end of the hallway.
00:58
Delta Fire engine four, they give you a room number that's five, please?
01:07
Units responding to near Fleetwood Drive.
01:11
No room number provided.
01:12
It's going to be the third floor.
01:13
Caller was on the floor below, said she's at the end of the hallway and can hear an alarm going off.
01:19
I called her back to verify any smoke, smell, or visual.
01:22
She said negative and also that the alarm just shut off at that time of the call.
01:31
And Elgin Apparata responding to Fleetwood, we're on Ops 2.
01:40
Calls your fire, engine 4.
01:42
Engine 4.
01:46
Ronstein, three-story,
01:47
like a brick apartment building.
01:49
Again, nothing showing from all four sides, no evacuation,
01:53
no strobe activation.
01:54
I don't hear any audible or worse.
01:57
We'll be going in to investigate and go ahead and make us, uh, flee with your head.
02:03
That's received, engine three on scene of a three-story brick, structure nothing showing all four, no evac and no audible going on in investigating mode.
02:23
Next crew in.
02:24
I'll need your crew to help to hide it's directly behind us.
02:28
I'm at the sandbite.
02:31
Let's hold off on committing another aging company to the back, sir.
02:44
Engine 5, and ambulance 1.
02:47
Ambulance Request,
02:49
near Willard Avenue.
02:51
Skate Park, Willard Avenue, between Mackie Lane and Anderson Avenue.
02:57
Timeout 1615.
02:59
Engine 5, and ambulance 1,
03:02
ambulance request,
03:04
near Willard Avenue.
03:15
engine one or engine five ambulance one responding to a not mentally okay subject.
03:23
He's on scene at the scapeer.
03:28
We're going to stage on Fleetwood per battalion one.
03:34
Blue Command copies.
03:36
Hulling Fire, Flewool Command.
03:39
Go ahead, command.
03:42
We're on the third floor.
03:44
I don't hear any audible alarms and I have no smell for smell or anything burning.
03:49
Do you have the call there's a party number?
03:55
She was on the floor below.
03:57
I will attempt to get it.
03:58
Standby.
04:04
Engine 5, ambulance 1, P's on scene, and secure for you to roll right in for a mental health evel.
04:13
AJ5 copies.
04:20
For Melgenfire.
04:24
Go ahead.
04:26
The caller stated that the noise is coming from the side of the building facing Wendy's also stated that her apartment number was 214 and it was above her.
04:41
Okay, happy then.
04:45
For maybe on four.
04:53
I didn't get before talking about building plumber down here they didn't have any audible or strove at all must just be isolated up there or externally
05:11
copy that that's what I'm thinking I'm going to apartment 314 316 now just to make sure there's nothing going on

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Near Fleetwood Dr, Elgin, IL 60123

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