Fire alarm triggered by faulty rooftop unit at Felton St, Marlborough MA
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a fire alarm at a building near Felton St. The building was evacuated. The alarm was caused by a malfunctioning rooftop unit due to flooded roof and clogged drains. The system was reset and held, and property management was advised to contact their HVAC company.
Audio|Source: Marlborough Fire Department
05:13
Transcript:
00:00
Receive, fire alarm, you can clear all units from 1, 2, 3 Felton.
00:03
All right is clear from 1-2-3 Felton, 1724.
00:09
Truck 1 has the message, Rick, they're returning.
00:11
Call 5 to 300.
00:13
What's your location?
00:14
Cut 5, we're a Concord Road at Route 20.
00:17
Okay, the message.
00:19
Car 5, 400. Can you make your way down to Aldegarden?
00:23
Yeah, Chief, that's ringing back in here, 1, 2, 3, Salt, and we might need the truck down here after all.
00:28
Okay, and a message, engine three continue to all got it, and truck continued to Felton Street.
00:34
Truck one has a message.
00:35
So I want to file, huh?
00:36
Okay, go ahead.
00:37
Squad 1 arriving off garden, strobe-activated building is evacuated.
00:42
Squad has come in.
00:44
I want to roll, please come in.
00:45
17, please.
00:46
100, calling COF-5.
00:47
Car 5. Car 5 is on 100.
00:49
Go, you message. Just an update on availability, we have the area around the tree limb down on the primaries, cordoned off with cones and road close signs where are currently the only piece of apparatus blocking the East Main Street side of Front Street.
01:04
There's no officer on seeing on the other end.
01:05
Okay, and a message I'm going to hold you at that location at this time.
01:10
Really? A squad one.
01:12
All right on the squad one.
01:18
Got off out of squad one.
01:24
Go with your message. We're all got, we got the system silence.
01:26
It's the same RTU unit that rang in a couple shifts ago that kept coming in.
01:32
We're going to go check it out. John 5 has that message.
01:34
I have engine 3 heading your way, as well as myself.
01:37
Engine 4, truck 1, rescue 1, fire, box alarm, 123 Felton Street.
01:44
Engine 4, truck 1, rescue 1, fire, box alarm, 123 Felton Street.
01:52
...on rescue.
01:53
Congratulations, car 5, rescue.
01:54
Try, if I had the rest of you call me?
01:56
Yeah, Chief, but he's going to turn out from Felton Street.
01:58
You want to stay Central for the time being?
01:59
Yeah, that's affirmative Cover Central.
02:01
Crazy.
02:02
All right, I'm from Felton Street, come in. Southman, go ahead.
02:04
Yeah, we confirm there's nothing wrong with the rooftop unit.
02:06
We're going to try the reset again, but you're going to have to contact the property management.
02:11
Their roof is flooded and their roof drains are clogged.
02:16
Receive, we'll do. Truck 1 at 400.
02:17
Yeah, truck one, you guys can clear.
02:19
We're gonna take care of it from here.
02:20
Yeah, we have the message.
02:21
We're pulling down to all the street now.
02:22
I'll clear, return.
02:23
File on from truck one.
02:24
Truck one's clear, returning.
02:25
Clear returning, covering, covered in ready.
02:27
5 Squad 1.
02:29
Trial 5 is on, squad.
02:30
Nobody message.
02:31
Made access to the roof, checked out the unit, everything appears to be operating normal, reset the system, and it is holding.
02:37
Okay, the message, just advise staff that they're going to need to get their H-FAC company out here at a leader date to address that situation.
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Location mentioned:
Near Felton St, Marlborough, MA 01752
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