Fire alarm activated at church on South Broad Street, Linden NJ


A fire alarm was triggered at a church on South Broad Street. Fire units responded but found no confirmed fire. They are investigating a possible cause related to maintenance painting inside the building.
Audio|Source: Elizabeth Fire Department
01:33
Transcript:
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Signal 408[1] at near South Broad Street, Cross Streets are Elizabeth Avenue and Pearl Street. Responding companies are Engine 1 and Ladder 3. It's going to be for a general alarm activation coming from the smoke detector zone 27. Operating on Fireground 1, timeout 1206, dispatcher 2.351.
00:24
Dispatch, Unit 2. Come in. Engine 2 is going to take that. Engine 1 can stand down. Engine 1 can stand down for South Broad. Good Spach, can you repeat that address. Our MDT is down.
00:50
It's going to be near South Broad Street. Ninja 2 from in. It's a church. Injure 17. Alarms are sounding. NG2 has command, investigating.
01:11
We've got a report of maintenance painting inside investigating.
Police codes explained
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Signal 408: Fire alarm/general alarm activation
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Location mentioned:
Near S Broad St, Linden, NJ 07036
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