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False fire alarm at New Berlin apartment complexNew Berlin WI

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New Berlin, WI

Firefighters responded to a smoke detector alarm at Pine Grove Apartments near West Greenfield Avenue in New Berlin. No fire was found, and the alarm was a false alert caused by a faulty compressor in the alarm room.

Audio|Source: Waukesha County Fire - West
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Transcript:
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Engine 23, Battalion 7, Engine 8, Utility 8, Pre-alert[1] Fire Alarm,
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near West Greenfield Avenue,
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between South Calhoun Road and George Avenue, New Berlin Fire Zone 2, timeout, 0548.
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The section of road, 6808 copies.
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Station we're on the Italian 7. Battalion 7.
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You can place me in route.
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Copy the Italian 7 in route.
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Fire alarm, called in by the alarm company near West Greenfield Avenue off of South Calhoun.
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Called in as a smoke detector apartment pole station at Pine Grove Apartments.
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Battalion 7, copies additional.
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A patch, 123.
01:06
District 23, unseen two-story large apartment complex.
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Nothing showing from two sides for evacuation and progress.
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No strobes or audible alarms at this time.
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We can make on investigating on coming units again to switch to 8th up on arrival.
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Copy two-story large apartment complex.
01:25
Nothing visible from two sides, no strobes, no audible, investigating, incoming switch to right on arrival.
01:30
Just mentioned from Greenfield Command.
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Greenfield Command.
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On investigation, we do have audible alarms coming from near West Greenfield, so it's the same apartment that we issued with earlier today.
01:50
You can keep the wrong coming, but they can slow down to non-emergent.
01:53
Copy, audible alarm coming from the dispatch location, same apartment that was responded to prior.
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Any incoming can reduce non-emergent.
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We're telling seven copies, non-emergent.
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Todd?
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Can we terminate? I'll unit to be available in quarters.
02:13
Companies now notify, they just need to replace their compressor in their alarm room. That's what you're safe.
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Especially Berlin, Battalion 7.
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The Italian 7.
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You can place me on scene.
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Copy Battalion 7.
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Dispatch Nuburnal and Battalion 7. I have Brookfield completed the investigation.
02:47
There's no issues here. Our alarm is reset and holding, just another false alarm. We'll make contact with a key holder and have them service the system.
02:54
Battalion 7 and Engine 8 will be clearing up.
02:57
County Battalion 7, Engine 8 are going to be clearing.
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Brookfield completed investigation.
03:01
Another false alarm, no problems.
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All right.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Pre-alert: Advance notice to units of a pending incident prior to full dispatch or callout.

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