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Smoke detector triggers false alarm at residential addressAmes IA

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Near S 16th St, Ames, IA 50010

Fire department responded to an automatic smoke alarm near South 16th Street in Ames. The alarm was triggered by a smoke detector above the fire panel but was reset before firefighters arrived. No fire was found.

Audio|Source: City of Ames Fire and EMS
02:36
Transcript:
00:00
Automatic alarm.
00:02
Truck 1, near South 16th Street, cross-off, Cricside Drive, and Mulberry Boulevard, S-P-A-C-1.
00:13
Automatic alarm,
00:15
near South 16th Street, S-P-A-C-1.
00:25
Just finished, hour one.
00:32
Channel 1.
00:34
In route 926,000.
00:36
Cume.
00:42
Copy the alarm company advice.
00:44
It's going to be the smoke detector above the fire panel.
00:49
Callow one, Coveys.
00:55
This is right, power one.
01:04
Gunn. Power one's on scene.
01:07
We'll investigate not your own.
01:10
Copy.
01:11
Lines down, engine 1, 1,1100 block, Roosevelt Avenue, cross off 10th Street and 12th Street, F-T-A-C-2.
01:23
Lines down, 1-1-0 block, Roosevelt Avenue, F-P-A-C-2.
01:36
Okay, in addition one.
01:39
Go ahead.
01:45
Page of wanting around.
01:46
Let me have your block.
01:47
Roseville.
01:53
Happy.
01:54
We had a passing motorist call this in.
01:57
He said there's a crew working in that area.
01:59
It looks like they knocked over a power pole.
02:01
There were some lines down.
02:02
He said in the roadway.
02:04
He didn't see any sparks or anything.
02:06
We haven't received any calls from the people working there.
02:10
I'm sure what kind of lines it is.
02:14
Thank you, one, copies.
02:21
Just mentioned number one.
02:24
Do you like?
02:30
No one completely available.
02:32
The alarm had been reset prior to our arrival.
02:36
Okay.

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Near S 16th St, Ames, IA 50010

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