Fire alarm at Union Street fraternity building

Heard on: Metuchen Fire & EMS

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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This is fire department (number withheld), Union Street, (number withheld) Union Street, across from Hamilton and Main Street for fire alarm.

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This is fire department (number withheld), Union Street, across from Hamilton and Main Street for fire alarm.

00:08

Fourteen fifty-eight.

00:14

Car twenty-one received.

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That'll be engine one, engine two, ladder one, car twenty-one.

00:21

Engine five.

00:29

Thank you.

00:38

Ladder 1 is responding.

00:45

Engine two.

00:51

123102, we're staged.

00:57

Stage 3102.

01:08

Car 21's arrived.

01:09

Establishing Union Street command.

01:12

This is going to be a three and a half story wood frame fraternity.

01:19

Alarm sounding, evacuation in progress.

01:21

316, status 316.

01:23

We'll be operating on fire ops one.

7/30/2026 11:58 AM

Fire

Union St, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire units responded to a reported fire alarm at a fraternity house on Union Street near Hamilton and Main Street. Crews established Union Street command at a three-and-a-half-story wood-frame building with alarms sounding and an evacuation in progress, operating on a designated fire operations channel.