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False fire alarm caused by faulty detector at churchGainesville FL

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NW 5th Ave, Gainesville, FL

A false fire alarm was reported at a church on Northwest 5th Avenue. Responders found the building secure with no open doors and no active hazards. Maintenance confirmed the alarm was caused by a faulty smoke detector. The incident was cleared with no danger present.

Audio|Source: Gainesville Police and Alachua Fire
02:21
Transcript:
00:00
All the road command. All the road command.
00:03
All 13 uniforms, 5th Avenue, Powerhouse, Faith and Praise, Plains advising that the church door is wide open and then the line disconnect. He disconnected the line, we got voice on call back to do.
00:19
All responding units can slow their response until we can confirm.
00:25
Per command, slow down all responding units to the highlight hazard line.
00:31
He gave the intersection of Northwest Fifth Avenue in 4th Street, this is the Illinois Church. We saw that it could be an area he's saying it's the Old Brook Church.
00:38
Press 31 responding, responding sick person 310, northwest 15th Street, 310, no plus 15th Street, Apartment, 4A8 of the Viceroy.
00:46
30-year-old female conscious and breathing of general fueling from unwellness, ill, and pain in her whole body, make contact on scene in 0541 hours.
00:53
All right, command.
00:55
Alder Road Command.
01:01
360[1] completed.
01:04
There are no active hazards.
01:08
Engine 3 and the tower can handle. We can release all the other units.
01:15
Percommand, no active hazard, 360[1] complete, engine 3, Tower 1 can handle releasing all the units 305.21.
01:25
Tire one on the scene.
01:26
Tire one on the senior point of command.
01:28
Let's consider Gainesville, um,
01:31
building is secure. There's no way open doors here.
01:34
Okay.
01:39
Okay. Okay, all the road command. Clear command.
01:41
Make contact with maintenance.
01:43
It seems to be a faulty alarm, releasing tower one.
01:47
Make contact with maintenance, faulty alarm, release the tower one, zero five, three seconds.
01:55
Hello, the road command.
01:57
Hold the Road Command.
01:59
Maintenance is able to get a full reset.
02:06
It appears to be a faulty smoke detector, fire detector.
02:10
There are no hazards,
02:12
scene turner to the maintenance.
02:15
You can close us out, F5, Foxshot 5, command terminated, showing to be available.
02:20
Copy on account, sir, 529.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
360: Complete 360-degree size-up walkaround of the structure

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NW 5th Ave, Gainesville, FL

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