Multiple Reports of Loud Pops Near Water Street Bridge, Fitchburg MA

Weapons

Reported: 11/1/2025 02:36 AM

Water St, Fitchburg, MA 01420

Multiple callers reported hearing loud popping sounds, possibly gunshots, under the Water Street Bridge near the train tracks by the Express Gas Station in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Police and fire units are investigating the area for any evidence related to these sounds.

Audio|Source: Fitchburg Police and Fire Dispatch

02:19

Transcript:

00:00

Great. You put us in the area.

00:09

Where was the second call from?

00:13

I'm going to be from (name withheld).

00:15

It's a security guard to be fish for a station right now.

00:21

So I'm going to be in the immortal.

00:27

I reach you.

00:34

3 and 5. I've just received a third call.

00:37

This caller I believe they were coming from the train tracks.

00:46

Rishi.

00:49

5.5.5.5.5.5.5.5.5.5.5.5.

01:00

This third caller did he, or she just heard it,

01:04

or the same time she's going to be it?

01:07

Same time frame as the others.

01:16

Two by 7105-7702, she got another call for it.

01:27

Reachee.

01:28

That's your fiscal side of the bucket.

01:31

Seventy-2-Valdalia as.

01:33

Investigate to C.O. Detected. Injone, her spot.

01:36

That's 7-2, Valdalia have.

01:38

To investigate the C.O. Detecting 1.

01:40

File on the side 41.

01:42

All right, you can have me on to this call.

01:44

We'll be on the train tracks off a folder by the express gas station. There's a couple crews out here. They're working on the tracks.

01:54

It could be done.

01:56

Thank you.

01:58

All right, well then I closed.

02:02

All right, unfortunately is not the crews,

02:06

but they did also hear the loud pops, and they pointed me in the direction of under the Water Street Bridge,

02:15

possibly towards the Zeta's direction.

02:19

About that parking lot.

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Water St, Fitchburg, MA 01420

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