False fire alarms at Brightwood Terrace and Broad St, Lynn MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 09/15/2025 08:20 PM (PDT)

Near Broad St, Lynn, MA 01902

Fire units responded to two central station fire alarms at Brightwood Terrace and near Broad St. No fire was found and systems were reset. A resident reported possible squatters smoking in the basement near Broad St.

Audio|Source: Lynn Fire Department

02:15

Transcript:

00:00

Engine 1-2-3, Brightwood Terrace, Central Station Fire Alarm[1].

00:06

Engine 1-Ladder 1-1, 1-3, Brightwood Terrace, Central Station Fire Alarm[1].

00:18

Engine 1-Ladder 1-1, Brightwood Terrace, Central Station, Fire alarm.

00:28

Engine 1 to arrive him.

00:30

One break with terrorists, alarm sound, and nothing shown, and command.

00:34

Andrew 1 arriving with command, alarm sound, and nothing shown.

00:41

Final, I'm Ladder 1 on scene.

00:42

Byrdwood Terrace.

00:45

Ladder 1 on scene.

00:53

File on Ladder 1 to Travis, Attorney.

00:56

Latter 1, Service, Attorney. Latter 1, Service, Attorney.

01:05

File, I'm calling Ladder 1.

01:11

Ladder 1.

01:13

Can he start into 26 Broad Street for a central station alarm?

01:22

26 Broad Street Central Station alarm.

01:29

Rightwood command terminated, system reset, engine one in service.

01:33

Right, and with command terminated and engine one in service, system reset.

01:43

Engine 5, ladder 1 responding, 26 Broad Street for the central station alarm.

01:48

That's engine 5, ladder 1 responding, 26 Broad Street for the central station alarm.

01:57

I'm calling Ladder 1.

02:03

Ladder was the answer.

02:05

Ladder 1 had a resident from Unit 201 call in saying to possibly check the basement that might have a situation with squatters down there smoking.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

Central Station Fire Alarm: Automatic fire alarm activation reported by a central monitoring station

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Near Broad St, Lynn, MA 01902

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