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False fire alarm at retirement facility near Woodcrest AveCoraopolis PA

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Woodcrest Ave, Coraopolis, PA 15108

According to the dispatch call, a fire alarm was triggered by a smoke detector in room 132 at a retirement facility near Woodcrest Avenue. The alarm was later confirmed to be false due to battery replacement.

Audio|Heard on: Allegheny County West Police, Fire, and EMS, South Fire
Listen to dispatch call
03:29
Transcript:
00:00
Retirement home fire alarm, room 132.
00:03
Press, Retirement,
00:04
near Woodcrest Avenue and then township.
00:07
One of activation is going to be a smoke detector room 132.
00:11
197, less fireflies.
00:13
Not three.
00:19
County, one night from Chief Lee.
00:31
County,
00:33
197 and 33.
00:39
Onsing down 45.
00:42
Ending three.
00:45
1035.
00:46
1917. 1927.
00:50
1912. We'll see you.
00:54
Chief, they just put a notification in here.
00:57
They were changing batteries on the site.
01:00
Now mention of the Campbell and update our agency.
01:04
Okay, we'll then if you continue on you can hold everybody else.
01:14
One 97 units, what crest, retirement for the chief hold, mention three.
01:19
Road for a residential burglar alarm.
01:25
Okay, uh,
01:28
not fair, copies.
01:38
39, Mississippi County, you can put me on that alarm on Higree Grade.
01:45
Stafford. Okay.
01:50
County 844.
01:58
Forty-minute seems code four here, what's going to do a lot?
02:03
Okay.
02:05
One out of a one time.
02:08
Good.
02:11
E1, Ohio Street for a stroke.
02:14
Recommend the 13-1.
02:17
I got a year.
02:18
You're going to get a good question.
02:30
1901-5 township number 20 Ohio Street, a 74-year-old now, shred-like symptoms from 6 this morning.
02:38
The 19-0, acknowledges.
02:44
County 197 engine,
02:47
sir. County 197 engine, sir.
02:55
See him woodcrack, uh,
02:57
give you up here momentarily.
03:01
Dobby on the scene, wait for the upseat.
03:03
Nine, one.
03:10
9.27 County, I'm out on Hickardtree.
03:14
Nothing.
03:22
Confirmed false alarm; they were changing a battery.
03:25
We instructed them to call you guys as direct next time.

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Woodcrest Ave, Coraopolis, PA 15108

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