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False fire alarm at multi-family building near Westover Hills Blvd, Richmond VA

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Near Westover Hills Blvd, Richmond, VA 23225

Fire units responded to a fire alarm at a multi-family building near Westover Hills Boulevard. The alarm was caused by a smoke detector placed on a porch, and there was no fire found.

Audio|Source: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Engine 20, engine 17, truck 10, and battalion 3.
00:04
Fire alarm near Westover Hills Boulevard.
00:09
Engine 20, engine 17, truck tan, and battalion 3.
00:13
Fire alarm.
00:15
Near Westover Hills Boulevard.
00:18
Cross streets are a name road in Buffett Avenue.
00:21
On tap Channel 2.
00:23
Time out, 0413.
00:29
Show our companies out to near Westover Hills Boulevard for the general fire alarm.
00:35
Private callers advising the fire alarm is going off in the building.
00:41
Unsure which apartment the alarm is going off in.
00:45
Channel companies in Route 0.415 hours.
00:50
Tension 20 is on scene at near Westover Hills Boulevard. We've got a three-story wood frame, multi-family dwelling, nothing's showing. Tension 20 will be investigating at Westover Hills Command.
01:03
Richmond Copy. Tension 20 on scene, three-story wood frame, multifamily dwellings. That is shown. The investigator has command 0419.
01:15
He's got a hydrant faster than Westover Hills.
01:22
Received.
01:27
From West Overhills Command.
01:32
Westover Hills Command. Westover Hills Command, go ahead.
01:40
You can't cancel all other units on the scene. Engine 20 will stay on the scene for a moment.
01:45
This is an audible smoke detector going off that somebody's placed on the back of their porch at Unit (number withheld).
01:54
Which new copies.
01:59
Engine 20, they have a lot of the companies that are turning a service.
02:03
Zero 4.2.0.

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Near Westover Hills Blvd, Richmond, VA 23225

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