False alarm at residential building on Garfield Road

Heard on: Frederick County Sheriff, Fire and EMS, State Police

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Engine 512 , 14

00:04

Garfield Road.

00:06

First up, the fire alarm on Charlie Nine Thirty Three.

00:13

Different call, very good.

00:17

Twenty Three

00:18

Twelve tag returns on a gray Honda four door to a (name withheld) of Frederick.

00:30

Twenty Nine negative.

00:37

Ten.

00:44

We'll be investigating.

00:49

Engine 311, 934.

01:00

Engine 51 responding.

01:02

(number withheld) Garfield Road, residential fire alarm, and Charlie 934.

01:11

2312, Frederick.

01:14

2312.

01:17

Construction workers for a job there, going to clear the house, 71.

01:23

2312, 10-4.

01:29

Medic 19, transport into FHH.

01:34

Engine 19, 936.

01:41

Construction workers in unit C Charlie.

01:47

Panels are reset.

01:48

No fire department services needed.

01:50

We're going to be in service.

01:53

Fire Engine 311 in service 937.

8/11/2026 06:31 AM

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Garfield Rd, Smithsburg, MD 21783

False alarm at residential building on Garfield Road

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a residential fire alarm at a home near Garfield Road in Smithsburg. The alarm appears to have been triggered by construction work in one of the units, and there was no active fire and no fire department services were needed.

False alarm at residential building on Garfield Road

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