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False medical alert alarm at residence on East StSangamon County IL

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East St, Illinois 62707

Fire department responded to a medical alert alarm near East St in Sangamon County. It was the second alert for the same location. No one at the scene was aware of the alarm, and there was no actual emergency. The alarm was likely triggered by error or malfunction.

Audio|Source: Sangamon County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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Engine 2, response to medical alert alarm near East St.
00:06
Joseph Street.
00:07
Cross streets are South 6th Street. Frontage Road, west of South 6th Street. No specific room.
00:16
Second time they received a medical alarm for the premise with no name attached.
00:34
We've already been there to this location and gotten in touch with (name withheld). There's no one there and had an address with a local alarm.
00:47
Copy, I was here as well.
00:49
They just called again, so we had to put in another call for it.
00:57
Try to get in touch with this (name withheld).
00:59
see if it's his alarm going off.
01:02
Yeah, we called both of them. Snoop's alarm goes straight to voicemail, and it says on here, (name withheld) did not answer.
01:14
We're not going to go back if we don't have a room number or any way to get in touch with it.
01:20
Happy.
01:24
We made contact with (name withheld) on our personal cell phone.
01:29
Neither him nor (name withheld) even know what a medical alert alarm is. I'm not sure why they are connected to that alarm company.
01:38
If you guys can do some investigation with that or not, but there is no emergency.

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Location mentioned:
East St, Illinois 62707

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