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Possible fire alarm at residential high-rise near East Gay StColumbus OH

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Continental Center, 150 E Gay St, Columbus, OH 43215

Fire units responded to a possible fire alarm activation at a residential high-rise near East Gay Street in Columbus. Engines and ladder companies investigated, with engine one staging in the lobby. Yelling and screaming were reported from an apartment.

Audio|Heard on: Columbus Public Safety
Listen to dispatch call
01:46
Transcript:
00:00
We're going to fire station one on the scene that near East Gay.
00:07
residential high-rise, Kevin Towns that mode command, engine one and latter won't be investigating, engine nine will be standing by, excuse me, engine nine, the ladder 1 be investigating,
00:17
engine one will be sent staging.
00:19
And that's twenty, did you copy all the runners that are holding the three, four, a's, and the 50?
00:23
Yes, there I am.
00:25
We're at Cleveland 270.
00:27
We're staging here.
00:30
We're kind of impossible to do that U-turn on that ramp.
00:35
I copy.
00:38
Engine 9 out of word.
00:40
Engine 1 on scene.
00:41
Yeah,
00:46
uh, just stand by a minute.
00:47
I'm talking to police here, see what we can figure out.
00:52
Stand in by.
00:55
Let's mean this is going to go to 10 hours.
00:57
I'm going to give up this channel.
01:01
Radio A's 13.
01:04
13. Yes,
01:06
46, going 10 out of them.
01:08
You could have the 34, reads like a 16,
01:11
26 shipmills,
01:13
apartment 202,
01:15
call this hearing, yelling, and screaming from apartment 202.
01:19
Tell you what's on the team.
01:22
I copy.
01:24
The tell you what I'm seen.
01:26
Second one, the ladder one.
01:28
I'm going to take command of the Alpha Delta corner.
01:33
I want you to be doing it.
01:35
Cool.
01:37
Yeah, I'll go ahead and take command here at the Alpha Delta car.
01:40
You got a ladder one and engine nine investigating engine one is going to stay in the lobby that you got or what do you got?

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Location mentioned:
Continental Center, 150 E Gay St, Columbus, OH 43215

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