Fire alarm caused by construction work at athletic center, Lexington VA
A fire alarm went off at the Athletic and Recreation Center on Warner Drive in Lexington. Construction workers were redoing the floor in the old gym and accidentally triggered the alarm. There was no fire hazard, and the alarm system was reset.
Audio|Source: Rockbridge County Fire and EMS
03:15
Transcript:
00:00
Company 100 100 Drus 4 Athletic and Recreation Center for a solar alarm.
00:06
Blackwood, J2C 16Bitty.
00:08
Drive in Lexington.
00:10
Cross streets are West Washington Street at Dead End.
00:18
Dean, Stansion, 93's respond.
00:25
I'm going to go, I'll show you're funny at 1655.
00:29
So that's just the Athletic and Recreation Center at 101er Drive.
00:33
For a general alarm, zero zone zero zero zero two, the no description, even up there, option, not always, option three, after DTC.
00:47
Number nine, three plus one.
00:52
1040, Tower 9, 16 to do six operate officer.
00:59
Tower 9 from 93.
01:02
We're going to go up into Warner Drive if you guys want to stage on Washington Street there in front of Gainesville.
01:12
The engine 93 is all location.
01:16
Multi-story athletic facility, nothing shown from the exterior.
01:20
We'll be out with Debbie on Public Safety.
01:22
Lieutenant Harla has command.
01:27
Rescue 2 respond to.
01:29
Medical alarm.
01:31
At 1045, East 21st Street, Indian Arista.
01:34
Cross streets of Pine Avenue at East 21st Street.
01:39
Tenet Hollow with command mountain-vestigating 1651.
02:01
Hi, so I'll show you about 1,800, 1045 East 21st Street.
02:06
For a medical line activation with no voice contact, you could hear voice contact in the background.
02:13
The only information they could provide for a 63-year-old female, they get the bad key information if you need that, you can call into dispatch.
02:21
You know, that's too, like would you speak.
02:27
Tower Nond, young gun, sirs.
02:33
Okay.
02:35
DCC, tower on, clear.
02:40
2417-9.
02:42
The ECC Warner Drive Command.
02:45
Warner Drop command.
02:47
Go ahead.
02:50
Construction workers are on scene, redoing the floor in the old gym,
02:55
set off the alarm, no fire hazards.
02:57
We're resetting the alarm now.
03:01
Okay,
03:13
it looks like it took a good reset.
03:14
You can come back now?
Disclaimer:
This transcript was automatically generated and may contain inaccuracies. Please verify the information independently.
Location mentioned:
Center St, Lexington, VA 24450
This shows a Google Street View of the area near the location, which might not be the exact address.
Correct
Incorrect