Cooking sets off fire alarm at child care center

Heard on: Lancaster County PA Fire Dispatch

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Clay Township, 181 Larkspur Lane, Learning Experience, fire alarm.

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Squirt 16, squad 16, rescue 16, and tower 15.

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956.

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Yeah, yeah, it's 493 arriving at Lancaster General.

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Yeah, it's 493, okay.

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County Deputy 16 is en route.

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Deputy 16, okay.

00:26

Received pantry smoke, CO heat, and about a minute ago we got an additional general fire alarm from the alarm company.

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Deputy 16, copy.

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County Medic 110, I'll be available.

00:43

Medic 110, okay.

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County, Deputy 16, I'm on the scene.

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One-story child care facility, nothing showing inside Alpha Bravo.

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Building is not evacuated.

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Deputy 16, okay.

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County, Deputy 16.

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Deputy 16.

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Alarm set off from cooking, no fire services needed.

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Alarm's been reset.

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16 and 15 are available.

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Deputy 16, okay.

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Incident complete, 10-01.

2026-10-28 13:53 UTC

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Larkspur Ln, Ephrata, PA 17522

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews and a deputy responded to a reported fire alarm at a one-story child care facility on Larkspur Lane in Clay Township. The alarm was later determined to have been set off by cooking, and no fire services were needed.

Cooking sets off fire alarm at child care center

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