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False fire alarm at Cobb Residence Hall, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/2/2025 10:53 AM

Near Country Club Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

A fire alarm was activated at Cobb Residence Hall near Country Club Road in Chapel Hill, NC. Emergency units responded and investigated the multi-story dormitory building but found no fire or need for evacuation. The incident was concluded as a false alarm.

Audio|Source: Orange County Fire and EMS

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Transcript:

00:00

1032, ladder 74 of Italian chief for near Country Club Rd,

00:12

Cobb Residence Hall, fire alarm.

00:16

Engine 32, Ladder 74, Battalion 2, near Country Club Rd,

00:24

Cobb Residence Hall, fire alarm, cross streets are Battle Lane and Gimghoul Road.

00:32

POTS 2, communications clear, 1354.

00:40

9, transporting one patient routine to Duke, 1354.

00:49

74 route.

00:52

Thank you very much.

00:57

Unit's en route to Toucher Club Road, came in from campus by then at the Cobb Residence Hall for Toronto General fire.

01:10

Engine 32, we have a four-story missionary dormitory structure.

01:17

None negotiable from suicide.

01:20

No alarm or evacuations evident. We'll be on investigation, establishing a command.

01:24

Got me, engine 32, on team, multi-story, residential dormitory structure, nothing showing,

01:31

kind of investigating at 13 UK.

01:33

2, 4, 3 in round.

01:37

Copy, 243.

01:43

Clean occasion, 32.

01:45

Clear out units of exception, and 32, set off to take him.

01:49

Copy engine 32.

01:51

Clear all units to be except, and then, engine 32, set off due to cocaine, 15 to 292.

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Near Country Club Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514

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