Fire alarm repeatedly sounding at residential building, Ames IA


Fire crews responded to a fire alarm repeatedly sounding all day near Tripp St. The source was uncertain, possibly from an upstairs apartment. No confirmed fire was reported.
Audio|Source: City of Ames Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Automatic alarm.
00:02
Engine 2 near Tripp St.
00:06
Cross of Sunflower Drive and Dutton Drive, F.T.A.C.1[1].
00:12
Automatic alarm.
00:13
Near Tripp St.
00:15
F.T.A.C.1[1].
00:17
We'll be in Rochester an email.
00:18
Near Tripp St.
00:19
Please make our C2N available.
00:20
Poppy, they have a fire alarm that's been going off all day.
00:23
They're not exactly sure where it's coming from.
00:25
They said possibly upstairs.
00:27
You guys would be on that one. Copy. We were there earlier today.
00:30
I'm guessing this is the same issue for number 10, third floor.
00:34
The detector is going on, we'll go on to investigate.
00:36
Copy.
00:37
This patch for mention two.
00:38
Did you? Did you two?
00:39
Do you still have contact with the caller at all for this?
00:42
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43
My co-worker is saying that the caller didn't know what apartment it was coming from, so I don't know if it's five again like you were out there before or not.
00:50
Copy. I'm just going to see if we can talk to an individual that called it in as well.
00:53
Engine 2 for memes.
00:55
We have history with the caller.
00:56
Looks like she might live in unit (number withheld).
00:59
Copy, thank you.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
F.T.A.C.1: Fire Tactical Assignment Channel 1
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Location mentioned:
Near Tripp St, Ames, IA 50014
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