Smoke detector alarm in elevator at Passaic high-rise, Passaic NJ
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire units responded to an alarm activation at a 15-story building near Main Avenue in Passaic. The alarm was a smoke detector activation inside elevator number two. Crews attempted entry but found the door locked and worked to gain access for investigation.
Audio|Heard on: Passaic (City) Public Safety
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03:27
Transcript:
00:00
Attention, Battalion 1, Engine 1, engine 4, ladder 1, engine 3, response to near Main Ave on an alarm activation, Battalion 1, engine 1, engine 4, ladder 1, engine 3, response to near Main Ave.
00:28
Near Main Ave on the no harm activation.
00:31
Cross Street Talk Broadway and Howe Avenue.
00:34
Time now is 1701.
00:40
Battalion was responding near Main Ave.
00:47
1703.03. 1703.
00:50
BREYER.
01:05
BREYER KERRY.
01:15
17.3. Ryan one.
01:25
1704.
01:35
The battalion 1 main after command.
01:37
A 15-story type 1 high-rises building.
01:40
Alarm star sounding, I'll be investigating.
01:48
1705.
02:04
Another one on that.
02:09
Another one on that.
02:30
That's you on Broadway prospect, correct?
02:39
We're a prospecting.
02:41
All right,
02:43
Check it. Command under one, that's you on Broadway.
02:50
Aververver.
02:53
I go around the back by the port of air.
02:56
It can make entry there because there says to have a smoke detector activation and elevator number two.
03:02
I do believe it's on that side.
03:06
At this time, the water is probably to get access to that side, see.
03:14
Yes.
03:17
Yeah, see, we can't get the door open from the outside.
03:21
There's something going out with the door.
03:23
We have the keybox and the key for the knockbox, you don't want to.
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Location mentioned:
Main Ave, Passaic, NJ 07055
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