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False fire alarm at metropolitan apartments, Reading PA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/15/2025 08:13 AM

Near N 4th St, Reading, PA 19601

Fire units responded to a smoke detector activation in an apartment at metropolitan apartments near North 4th Street. No smoke or fire was found, and the alarm system was reset before crews left.

Audio|Source: City of Reading Fire/EMS

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Transcript:

00:00

Attention 7-1, Metropolitan Apartments near 4th Street, between Windsor and Spring Street.

00:05

Automatic fire alarm, apartment 924 living room.

00:09

And then I'm arriving alone at 13.

00:15

Engine 7, near North Fourth.

00:18

Engine 7, oh.

00:24

Ladder 1, near North Fourth.

00:27

Kerala, one.

00:31

Khor 7, near North Fourth.

00:37

I have a metropolitan apartment smoke detector from first floor apartment 924 living room.

00:48

Next one thousand.

00:50

The next one one team, 1115.

00:57

And it's not one time.

01:03

Engine seven arriving 1115.

01:10

Six thousand around this point.

01:13

Seven down.

01:19

Part 7 on the scene 1116th.

01:22

I'm just 7 o'clock, never.

01:24

Notary 7 was not at, St.

01:25

Joseph.

01:27

Go ahead.

01:29

I'm all right.

01:30

Okay,

01:33

we're good to reset.

01:35

Oh, Taylor, and when you take a book?

01:38

Not at one top.

01:39

We're available.

01:41

Another one available, 1116.

01:43

In car 7, you have a clear panel with troubles.

01:46

He's been restored.

01:51

Okay.

01:53

I'm ready to get that.

01:54

You can make you sound available.

01:57

The permit available 1121.

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Near N 4th St, Reading, PA 19601

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