False fire alarms triggered by low batteries in vacant apartments, Metairie LA
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Fire & ArsonFire department responded to alarms at vacant apartments near Arlington Drive in Metairie. No fire or emergency was found. Alarms were triggered by low batteries in hardwired smoke detectors.
Audio|Heard on: Jefferson Parish Eastbank Fire Departments
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02:2
Transcript:
00:00
One point on the scene, that will show on that's a gate.
00:02
Tapington, 148 and 148, that's a tonne out in this game.
00:07
Final 148, what's the correct numerical?
00:13
143, Arlington, 143, Arlington Drive.
00:17
Copy, thank you.
00:18
Tap.
00:23
One, 441, false alarm.
00:26
No, measure.
00:27
One 48, let a call back dispatch.
00:30
Copy one for one.
00:33
Call on, one, two,
00:36
one. One, two, one.
00:39
One, two, one.
00:45
Well, we do hear alarm in this complex.
00:48
We're walking through to see if we can locate anything.
00:50
As a state, it's vacant.
00:52
All the power's been told.
00:54
Do you know if anyone was coming out to this?
00:58
Negative 1-21.
00:59
It was called in by a pastor-by.
01:01
It wasn't called in by an alarm company.
01:04
Copy that problem.
01:05
We're going to check a little further, but it doesn't seem to be an emergency here.
01:09
Copy 1-21. One-two-one from Fire Alarm.
01:12
One-two.
01:18
Spoke with a contact that we have listed in Fireworks.
01:24
The advisor are no longer affiliated with the apartments.
01:27
They're said to be demolished, so the alarm is supposed to be disconnected at this time.
01:38
Copy file long, yeah, we found a couple that were going off.
01:41
What's happening is they were all hardwired and the batteries are going down, how they're starting to activate.
01:47
But there's no emergency here.
01:49
We've disconnected the ones we can, we found.
01:52
Copy 121.
01:53
Copy 121.
01:57
Call up 121.
01:59
You can clear us from the call.
02:00
Remain available in this back.
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Location mentioned:
Arlington Dr, Metairie, LA 70001
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