Alarm triggered at MIT building with no fire found, Cambridge MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/18/2025 04:56 AM

Near Main St, Cambridge, MA 02139

Police and emergency medical services responded to an alarm triggered at MIT Building 76-770C. Two MIT employees were found outside the building. No fire or immediate danger was reported.

Audio|Source: MIT Police and EMS

02:44

Transcript:

00:00

On to a news car, respond to building 76-770 Charlie, the radiator for some alarms.

00:12

Copy that.

00:16

One,

00:18

two, I'm off.

00:23

He's car out of control, I'm going to be coming off as well.

00:26

If you want to wait for me, one, two, I'll be there in one second.

00:30

Yeah, coffee, I'm in the lobby now.

00:39

So it's going to be two males waiting outside that door, they trip the alarm, then step back out.

00:45

All right, call me.

00:49

We'll check out.

00:50

Uh,

00:55

he's carter control.

00:57

So, though.

01:01

So there are two MIT employees.

01:03

I have one MIT employee, number one, ready.

01:09

(Name withheld) said, can you just go with the name so I can check the list?

01:18

So it's going to be Chi, Charlie Hotel, India,

01:23

last name,

01:24

(name withheld).

01:26

It's going to be Foxfront.

01:31

It's going to be...

01:37

Trot A,

01:38

Nevada,

01:40

G, Tango,

01:44

A, Oster.

01:47

Receive, that party checked out.

01:49

Go ahead with that next week.

01:55

Everyone's going to be last name Han, Hotel Alpha, Nora.

02:00

First name is going to be Sam, Hotel,

02:02

India, X-ray, Uniform,

02:05

November.

02:06

We have an MIT number of (number withheld), Copy.

02:10

Copy, say like.

02:16

Control calling, 292.

02:19

Thank you.

02:21

292, can you respond over to echo 23?

02:25

Room 287, well, we're receiving the left-eye panic alarm[1].

02:30

Okay.

02:36

Sir, one-two.

02:39

Okay, sir. Sir,

02:41

can you make all the death, please?

Police codes explained

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

[1]

panic alarm: Panic/hold-up alarm activation

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Near Main St, Cambridge, MA 02139

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