Small exterior fire from cooking at commercial building

Heard on: Paterson Fire 1 and 2

01:32

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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Attention, Engine Five, Engine One, last.

00:03

Three Battalion Two, you're responding to 55 East 24th Street at Second Ave and Third Ave on the cross for an activated fire alarm.

00:12

Attention, Engine Five, Engine One, Ladder Three, Battalion Two,

00:17

you're responding to 55 East 24th Street at Second Ave and Third Ave on the cross for an activated fire alarm.

00:23

Operator 114, 726.

00:33

Battalion two,

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this is 55 east 24th street, 2nd avenue, 3rd avenue.

00:50

Battalion, this

00:55

is dispatch. Got a one-story commercial.

00:58

Large amount of smoke, fire.

01:00

Exterior establishment.

01:13

Received. Battalion to be advised the transmission is a little scratchy.

01:25

This is a call with dispatch.

01:27

It's going to be an attempted cooking.

01:29

Negative extension. Hold myself at 5530 .

01:31

Other units are up.

2026-10-05 11:20 UTC

Fire

E 24th St, Paterson, NJ 07514

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

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire units were sent to a one-story commercial building near East 24th Street by Second Avenue and Third Avenue for an activated fire alarm with large amounts of exterior smoke and fire. The situation was later reported as an attempted cooking fire with no extension into the building.