Fire alarm triggered at hospital but found to be false, Charlotte NC
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was triggered at a hospital facility near Blythe Boulevard in Charlotte. Multiple fire units responded to the scene. Upon inspection, the alarm was confirmed to be a false or minor alarm, with no significant fire found. The hospital's switchboard had also reported alarms in the elevator lobby areas, but no emergency was detected.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
03:14
Transcript:
00:00
Battalion 5, Engine 6, and ladder 2, fire alarm, near Blythe Boulevard.
00:20
Battalion 1. Fire alarm.
00:22
Near Blythe Boulevard.
00:24
On G.
00:25
Golf. Battalion 1.
00:27
Fire alarm.
00:28
Near Blythe Boulevard.
00:30
On G. Golf.
00:31
Engine 6 alarm.
00:33
Shut engine 6 is Vador.
00:35
You're shutting engine 6 as bay door.
00:42
Companies responded to near Blythe Boulevard. Crossview is going to be Moorhead Medical and Leon Levine.
00:48
Six and still area, it was called in by the alarm company, received a main fire alarm zone 10.
00:54
Also got an additional call from a switchboard at the hospital that said that they received a eight golf elevator lobby, 11, 12, and 13.
01:09
Engine 37, MVA METIC holds, between (number withheld) South Triand Street. Engine 37, NVA MEDIC holds, between (number withheld) South Triane Street.
01:31
When you say the switchboard, did they call that in as a non-one call?
01:39
That's affirmative. Atrium dispatch called it in. They said that that was all they had. No further details. They just said 11, 12, 13.
01:49
All right.
01:57
A lot or two battalion. When we ran one of these a couple months ago, I believe it was just like this eighth floor, it's elevator, 11, 12, and 13 lobby.
02:08
Yeah, that makes sense. I was just making sure it wasn't the 11th, 12th, and 13th floor going off.
02:16
Yes, sir, that'd be bad.
02:20
I don't disagree.
02:27
Engine 6 is on scene, multi-story, hospital facility.
02:31
Shroes visible, engine 6-0-clam be in visiting.
02:36
Subwind is a command of us again.
02:43
It is a 37th alarm.
02:45
Good.
02:47
We were waived off 580, we would not need a minute.
02:50
Timor, Tyson.
02:53
29, conference, detain 9, back to conference.
03:01
Command, alarm.
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Come in.
03:07
Give me a control time, engine six can handle all of the units, y'all can clear, chief of your discretion.
03:13
Have you can control time, 244.
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Location mentioned:
Near Blythe Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28203
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