False fire alarms triggered in apartment complex, Rome NY

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/8/2025 10:20 PM

Near Cottage St, Rome, NY 13440

Multiple alarms were triggered at an apartment complex near Cottage St. An automatic fire alarm and a nurse call alarm in apartment 702 were activated. No fire was detected; the alarm in apartment 702 was triggered accidentally by a resident who could not turn it off. A battery fell onto a cell phone in apartment 511, and a fan was used to clear the area.

Audio|Source: City of Rome Fire Department

02:47

Transcript:

00:00

I'm automatic alarm[1], automatic alarm.

00:01

Call on the ultra-fireman.

00:10

Chrome, automatic alarm[1], near Cottage St 3,

00:14

engine 2, engine 3, rescue 1, tower 1 car 2, automatic alarm[1] 3, engine 3, rescue 1, tower 1, car 2, colonial 2 apartment, front apartment 511 alarm activation.

00:28

Keep an additional nurse call activation from apartment 702.

00:34

URs up to 126.

00:38

Let's receive.

00:42

Just take some of the seat.

00:44

I acknowledge it 1.23.

00:46

Engine 3 can fire.

00:53

Control, engine 3 is on the same ghost of the story masonary, nothing visible, side A.

00:58

Cartillow of commandment.

01:00

Receip, then he's 3.

01:01

Nothing visible.

01:02

No.

01:09

Wrong. Pertrude is out.

01:20

Enjoy 2 engine 1-2-0-2-10-1-2-2-2-10-1 for your main in quarters.

01:32

Enjoy all the seat.

01:43

No, car 2 is on the scene.

01:47

Nothing visible in the rear.

01:50

Copy hi-2, nothing visible from the rear one, please, there.

01:59

Agent 2 is out.

02:06

Tricent control about a car 2.

02:10

Very cute.

02:12

Seeing a call from a premise apartment 702, see if she accidentally pulled her, her next call alarm,

02:19

no emergency. She just can't figure out how to turn it off.

02:23

Recease.

02:26

Add to 2,000.

02:27

1.7.1.

02:40

And then through the cut two, we're in a battery fell on a cell phone in 511, we're gonna need a fan up there.

02:46

No active fire.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

automatic alarm: Automatic fire alarm activation reported at a location.

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Near Cottage St, Rome, NY 13440

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