False crash alarm after driver stops to search for phone

Heard on: Rowley Fire Dispatch

02:10

00:00

Automatic crash notification, area number (number withheld), Newburyport Turnpike.

00:05

Again, Rowley Fire, if you respond to the automatic crash notification, the area number (number withheld), Newburyport Turnpike.

00:21

Regional Raleigh Engine 2 is on from Harrison Circle.

00:26

On

00:30

and responding to the automatic crash notification, area number.

00:36

I'm pretty mapping that location within 8 m .

00:38

We can hear traffic passing in the background.

00:40

No contact with any operator.

00:44

Across the 4th bridge and Arrow Street, action on flight 1044.

00:55

Action medic one to regional, we're responding (number withheld) Newburyport Turnpike.

01:06

Receiving route.

01:10

D2 Newburyport Turnpike,

01:12

without a crash notification.

01:21

Engine two for regional.

01:26

Engine two.

01:29

Fire police can stand down.

01:34

Engine two has it standing down.

01:40

Mac one to regional, we have the cancellation.

01:49

Engine two for regional.

01:54

Engine two.

01:58

LTC, you have it.

01:59

A party had pulled over to look for their phone.

02:01

It was on the roof of their vehicle, and it no longer was on the roof of their vehicle anymore.

02:09

Very good, thank you.

6/25/2026 07:43 AM

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Newburyport Turnpike, Rowley, MA 01969

False crash alarm after driver stops to search for phone

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