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False alarm from smoke detector battery near Junior High, Marion IL

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Near W Main St, Marion, IL 62959

A smoke detector alarm sounded near Marion Junior High School at Main Street. Firefighters responded but found it was a false alarm caused by a dying battery in the smoke detector, not carbon monoxide.

Audio|Source: Franklin, Perry, Jackson, Williamson, and Jefferson Counties Police, Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Good far along with the Marine Junior High School, near Main St.
00:07
South Central Corridor, 2ndo 4 smoke.
00:10
I'm out of 233.
00:20
Engines 4. Engine 4,
00:22
lateral one I'm being around.
00:25
That's the order. Dead forward.
00:34
Pagan. Impact 22.
00:48
24, let me rise.
00:50
Secure 60.
00:57
Pact 325, Pac-20, Pact 22, please support the station.
01:01
Responding to Managing High School for an automatic law.
01:18
Safe, ten-four.
01:22
Charles 253 to coin status.
01:29
253, secure two hours.
01:31
Charles, 253, ten-four.
01:38
Carvernail, car key.
01:40
Car two.
01:41
Car two.
01:46
The detector she heard was a dying battery on a smoke detector, not CO.
01:53
We did check for CO and I'm present.
01:55
All fire hands, clear.

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Near W Main St, Marion, IL 62959
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