Medical Alarm Reports Possible Fire Next Door at Apartment, Rome GA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/3/2025 03:16 AM

Near N 5th Ave, Rome, GA 30165

A medical alarm was triggered at apartment 310 near North Fifth Avenue. The resident reported a fire next door and asked if it had been extinguished. Emergency services responded, but it was not confirmed if there was an actual fire or medical emergency. The resident did not report any medical distress.

Audio|Source: Floyd County Police, Fire and EMS

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Transcript:

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Ms.

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responding in it to near North Fifth Avenue, the apartment 310.

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The calls coming in as a medical alarm.

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They're advising us that the patient was stating there was a fire next door and asking questions about a fire.

00:16

We're also starting fire department.

00:19

This match, Angel 1, Clive 5 Lotter Battalion, can you all be around to near North Fifth Avenue? It's coming in as a medical alarm.

00:31

The alarm companies advise that the client is saying that there was a fire next door.

00:38

We're not sure what exactly is going on.

00:42

Engine 1, near North Fifth Avenue.

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245.

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It said it was something about a medical. Can you be a rap?

00:57

We've got everybody coming behind you.

01:03

It's going to be apartment 310, 310.

01:21

6 or 10-566.

01:24

Okay.

01:28

Ralph.

01:30

Yeah. That's right. Well, I don't want to round.

01:36

My five is around.

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See.

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back to engine one ladder one clinton five battalion one you're responding to near North Fifth Avenue near North Fifth Avenue apartment three ten three one zero came in as a medical alarm mouth subject

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advised that there was a fire next door, then he asked the alarm company dispatcher if they got the fire out already.

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Nothing was ever clarified if there was a fire in his apartment or not, and he did not say he was having medical issues.

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