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Smoke detector alarm triggers fire response in HarrisburgHarrisburg PA

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Withers Ct, Harrisburg, PA 17111

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire units responded to a residential fire alarm near Withers Court in Harrisburg. The alarm was caused by a smoke detector activation in a hallway following a light that had briefly caught fire but was extinguished before crews arrived.

Audio|Heard on: Dauphin PA Fire Dispatch Group Calls
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Transcript:
00:00
Box 347, near Withers Court, crossroad of Rycroft and Whitley for a residential fire alarm class one.
00:06
Company 34, engine 33, (number withheld).
00:09
Box 338, near Summerwood Drive, cross street of Bruce Mew deposit.
00:15
Report of a light on fire inside of a structure, now out.
00:19
Class one, company 33.
00:22
Engine 35, (number withheld).
00:25
Ladder thirty-four.
00:27
Seventeen oh two.
00:30
Chief thirty-three one, what was the update?
00:34
Chief thirty-three three one for the thirty-three box caller was reporting that a light was on fire.
00:42
I am not sure exactly what kind of light they said it popped and was on fire, but it's now out.
00:48
Engine thirty-four one way three going to the thirty-four seven AFA.
00:55
Okay, Engine Thirty Four One.
00:58
Thirty Three A Fox.
01:01
Okay, Engine Thirty Four.
01:03
It's near Withers Court came in direct from Rapid Response to be a smoke detector in the hallway.
01:08
You'll have Ops Three.

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Withers Ct, Harrisburg, PA 17111

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