False fire alarm at Chicago library investigated, Chicago IL
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An automatic fire alarm at the Chicago Public Library on South Morgan Street was investigated by fire crews. Workers were found testing the fire alarm system, and no fire was detected.
Audio|Heard on: Chicago Fire - Digital
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03:25
Transcript:
00:00
The plane 4 is going to near South Morgan for the automatic alarm.
00:04
All right, up at Inge 18, can you go engine 18?
00:12
Symbol 64, we're on the scene.
00:14
You can release the engine engine.
00:19
64, you're on the fire radio, but we'll hold that is.
00:26
44, 44, there will be a...
00:33
24,
00:34
they'll be of 44.
00:35
Thank you for the automatic alarm.
00:42
Two-story ordinary, great son-up, Sean.
00:47
116 message received.
00:49
You want a truck 31, truck 31.
00:53
Truck 31, go.
00:56
Truck 31, can you check on a person down (number withheld) Pulaski?
01:01
(number withheld) Pulaski.
01:05
Truck 31, going to (number withheld) Pulaski.
01:06
Truck 31, going to (number withheld).
01:09
I'll ask you for the person down.
01:15
Trens, if you get it, you're probably not.
01:19
Uh, okay.
01:25
Truck 18, Saturday, Peoria.
01:30
Truck 18, okay.
01:31
X-Team, Truck 18, return, and bed cook.
01:38
Okay, Tien, okay.
01:40
65, nine words, senior police is on the scene.
01:43
65, the truck every day.
01:48
Message received.
01:53
What special duty to I-A-D?
01:57
I was talk 5-2, go on I-A-D?
02:04
That is correct, five-two to I-A-A-D.
02:08
Message.
02:13
Truck 18, we're returning from Peoria, Keepa Center here 65th and State.
02:18
Permission is 6.
02:19
Fuel.
02:22
Truck 18, okay.
02:27
Truck 31, Engelwood.
02:30
Truck 31. Truck 31.
02:33
Yeah, this Black Lincoln was pulling off as we pulled up.
02:36
We don't see anything else.
02:37
We're going to return in service.
02:39
All right, truck 31, we'll hold the ambulance.
02:47
18, we got a cover, thank you.
02:52
A box alarm, (number withheld) Clark.
02:55
The Box alarm, (number withheld) Clark's Battalion, the Ninth Battalion.
03:04
(number withheld) North Clark,
03:06
for Battalion 9th.
03:08
All right.
03:12
Engine 5 and the trucker on the scene, near South Morgan,
03:16
four-story,
03:18
nothing's showing, we're northbound,
03:21
and office, you can hold everybody up.
03:23
We have workers working on the system.
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Location mentioned:
Library, Richard J. Daley, 801 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL 60607
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