Smoke alarm beeping at assisted living apartment

Heard on: Rooks County Public Safety

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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.

00:00

Plainville Fire Department, good tonight.

00:01

This will be to (number withheld) South Main, apartment (number withheld) at Redbud Assisted Living.

00:10

Have an elderly female that states her fire alarm or smoke alarm is going off.

00:19

It has been beeping for a while.

00:22

Possibly just needs a battery change.

00:25

She's. They changed one in the hallway earlier this week.

00:31

Check to your satisfaction.

00:33

Respond to fire dispatch.

00:35

We're concluding 1615 .

00:46

Also, that page did not set off pagers.

00:54

Okay.

01:04

Fire department, Plainville Fire Department, good tonight.

01:07

(number withheld) South Main.

01:10

This will be apartment (number withheld) .

01:13

Have an elderly female that states her smoke alarm has been beeping.

01:19

She does not smell smoke in there.

01:22

Also, they had to change the battery in one this week, so she's thinking that's what it is.

6/14/2026 02:14 PM

Fire & Arson

10th St SW, Plainville, KS 67663

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

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire personnel were sent to an assisted living facility near South Main Street for a possible malfunctioning smoke alarm in an elderly woman’s apartment. The alarm had reportedly been beeping for some time without any smoke, and it may have needed a battery change.