Alarm activated at Providence House linked to medical alert, Reading PA
Fire & ArsonAn alarm was activated at Providence House at 800 Court St in Reading. Responding units checked and found the alarm active only in one apartment, unit 218. The alarm was possibly linked to a medical alarm system. No fire or smoke was reported during the check.
Audio|Source: Berks County Fire and EMS - Digital
02:16
Transcript:
00:00
Hi, I just keyed up the alarms going off at the Providence House or going over to check it.
00:04
Copy. Put me on it.
00:05
I didn't send the truck company.
00:07
Do you want me to just hold off until he advised?
00:09
Yeah, hold on.
00:10
6-841 Burke security check
00:14
There is Minix 641 in Ralph's Reading.
00:16
Medics, 6841 and Reading, 015.
00:18
And judgment from what I'm looking at here is going to be 218.
00:22
Let me just go into check.
00:23
Do you have anything on the panel downstairs or is this part of the medical alarms we've had that before?
00:32
I think it may be part of the medical alarm system because I have no audibles and no strobes throughout the entire building.
00:39
If you can't be able to do that one, then we have a critical alarm.
00:43
On the route.
00:44
If you want to switch over to Fire Ops 1, Engine 1 keyed up and stated that there was an alarm activated, they went over and investigated.
00:52
It's only activated in one apartment, they believe 218, and they believe it's linked to the medical alarms.
01:01
They're going up to check.
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Location mentioned:
Near Court St, Reading, PA 19601
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