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Cooking causes false alarm near Fair St, Paterson NJ

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audio iconFire & Arson
Fair St, Paterson, NJ 07501

According to the dispatch call, fire units responded to a commercial fire alarm near Fair Street in Paterson. Crews investigated and found that the smoke alarm on the second floor was triggered by cooking. No fire or injuries were reported.

Audio|Heard on: Paterson Fire 1 and 2
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05:12
Transcript:
00:00
Attention, Engine Four, Engine Two, and Engine Five out of three, Rescue Two, Battalion One.
00:05
You're responding to a location near Fair Street and Auburn Street for a commercial fire alarm.
00:10
Again, just four Engine Two, Engine Five out of three, Rescue Two, Battalion One.
00:14
You're going to be responding near Fair Street, Auburn Street, cross of isolated commercial alarm.
00:21
Time is 1707, operating 15.
00:40
Location near Fair Street.
00:46
Fire alarm, second floor smoke detector.
00:48
Fire alarm, second floor smoke detector.
01:02
You're going to respond near Sherman Avenue for an odor of gas.
01:15
An odor of gas.
01:49
Squad Six responding near Fair Street.
03:35
Nothing visible from the exterior.
03:36
We do have an alarm sounding.
03:38
Command investigating.
04:45
Smoke was from cooking on the second floor; alarm activated.
04:57
Cooking set the alarm off.
05:06
All right, we're safe.

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Fair St, Paterson, NJ 07501

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