Commercial fire alarm near Lancaster Avenue possibly triggered by wax melt, Reading PA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, a commercial fire alarm at a location near Lancaster Avenue was triggered, possibly by a wax melt causing the detector to activate. No visible smoke or fire was present, and officials planned to inform occupants not to burn wax.
Audio|Heard on: Berks County Fire and EMS - Digital
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04:18
Transcript:
00:00
Tension Engine 5, Ladder 1,
00:07
Piazza Acura, near Lancaster Avenue, between Daniels Avenue and Brookline Plaza,
00:13
for commercial fire alarm reported to be General, 1526.
00:20
7 are you?
00:25
R7.
00:26
Is this the same address and zone as a call earlier today? What was the disposition of that one?
00:37
The farm is the same as earlier.
00:40
It was supposed to be on test earlier at 9 o'clock this morning.
00:50
Okay.
00:51
We'll have Engine 5 investigate.
00:53
You can hold Ladder 1 when they go responding.
00:59
Received, Engine 5 will be investigating.
01:01
We'll hold Letter 1,
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1527.
01:06
Letter 1, copy is right.
01:09
Letter 1 available, 1527.
01:11
Engine 5, 10 to 1, Leicester.
01:13
Engine 5, we wrote up 1527.
01:23
Medical 9 is on scene.
01:26
Receive, medic 9 on location, 1627.
01:38
Exeter Township 3970 Perkinson Avenue at the Penn State Health,
01:43
Exeter Family Medicine, between East and Neverson Street on the second floor for BLS Medical, Medics 69-31, Exeter Township 3970,
01:54
Thirkeham Avenue at the Penn State Health,
01:57
the Exeter Family Medicine, Second Floor, Room 2, Between East Neverson Road and West 39th Street for BALS Medical, 1528.
02:10
And if I'm on team, nothing showing out about getting.
02:18
Z1529.
02:25
(name withheld), 699.
02:26
69-3-1-2nd.
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3-1 in around 1529.
02:34
Penn State Health.
02:37
Family medicine.
02:38
Second floor, room two.
02:40
Fifty-seven-year-old female with a headache.
02:43
Started last Thursday after a seizure and a synchapapaphypac.
02:47
No other complaints now requesting a correction.
02:52
I know in hospital.
02:53
No precautions.
02:59
Where is 957.01 available?
03:04
1057.01 available, 153.
03:10
4.7?
03:13
Good.
03:16
Just the same alarm as earlier and there's no parents off.
03:21
All right.
03:24
Are they putting it on test and get his service or what did they do different than this morning?
03:33
Medic 7 a radio.
03:34
Medic 7 and routes to Reading.
03:36
Medic 7 are running.
03:39
1532.
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7 engine 5.
03:46
Did you call me?
03:52
So they think it's a wax melt that's triggering this detector.
03:56
But it's not leaving a visible cloud.
03:58
It's just an odor.
04:00
I can't believe that would be triggering a detector.
04:02
So if they said ETS is out here and check the system out,
04:07
but we're just going to tell them not to burn wax.
04:11
Yep, good plan.
04:13
The webinar radio, you can make the assignment available.
04:16
Receip the assignment available, 1533.
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Location mentioned:
Lancaster Ave, Reading, PA 19607
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