Fire drill activated at Saddlewood Elementary School, Albany NY

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/3/2025 11:02 AM

Near Loralee Dr, Albany, NY 12205

A fire alarm was activated at Saddlewood Elementary School near Loralee Dr. The school was evacuated as a precaution. Fire units responded but the alarm was later confirmed to be a staged drill with no actual fire.

Audio|Source: Albany County Volunteer Fire Departments

02:17

Transcript:

00:00

Colony Village, Village, Fire Department, Midway, for an engine, full of truck, three, fire alarm, the Saddlewood Elementary School near Loralee Dr.

00:07

Crossries is Chris Place.

00:09

Your talk group, fireups 1, 5F1, and 4204.

00:17

County, those acknowledging.

00:20

Collinstitch, 14.5.

00:26

Tract your 16 is in rope.

00:29

16, 1405.

00:34

The fact, 3 is in rope. Truck 3 in 4205. The battery is 16.

00:44

The only update the alarm company could give us was zone 91 that probably gave us.

00:51

16, okay.

00:52

1406.

00:56

Just that's your 4305-the-roof-roof-roof-Roo.

01:00

305 in-and-ru to 14-6. On the roof.

01:04

437 andrew 14-6.

01:09

All right, I'll medic too.

01:14

Back, my vehicle only service, what's the status of the medics?

01:22

I just have 50-186 on the scene of all 180 Delaware. That's up.

01:26

15, thank you. 14-08.

01:33

16 is arriving, the school is evacuated.

01:36

16 arriving, school evacuated 1408.

01:43

Dispatchew, 405, arrived.

01:45

405, arriving 1409.

01:47

Call me Command, dispatch. Cancel all the apparatus. This is supposed to be a staged drill.

01:53

All right,

01:56

control 31[1]02.

02:05

All equipment responding to the Sattelwood Elementary School near Loralee Dr, return to service, the drill.

02:13

You can show all units and service from Duncan Sikes, your house one, thank you.

Police codes explained

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

[1]

31: Unconscious/Fainting (medical emergency)

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Near Loralee Dr, Albany, NY 12205

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