Sprinkler break triggers fire alarm and evacuation at garden center, Reading MA
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Fire & ArsonA sprinkler pipe broke inside the garden center in Reading, causing the fire alarm to go off and the building to be evacuated. The sprinkler system riser was shut down. After evacuation, the alarm was silenced and the system was reset. Fire units were dispatched and later stood down.
Audio|Heard on: Reading Police & Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
00:00
If the alarms are active up there and people have evacuated, you can silence that and let them back in.
00:04
We probably get another five minutes or so here before I can reset the system.
00:09
Okay, yeah, I did dump the building here.
00:11
I'll let him know.
00:20
All right, everybody back in the building, but he starts silencing the alarm.
00:27
Okay, that's fine.
00:28
I'm going to attempt to reset in a minute or two.
00:30
Why don't you just hang tight there?
00:35
Okay, receive.
00:39
We're writing five from command.
00:43
Okay, five's on.
00:45
Okay,
00:46
this was a sprinkler break in the garden center.
00:48
That riser has been shut down.
00:49
I'm releasing ladder one, engine four, and medic one, holding engine three and car three.
00:55
Sorry, how's that.
00:57
Sprinkler brake in the garden center,
01:00
releasing engine four,
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ladder one,
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and the rescue holding engine three in coverage.
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Location mentioned:
Garden Center, Reading, MA 01867
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