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False fire alarm at Winnetka Broadmeadow Road, Winnetka IL

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Broadmeadow Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093

According to the dispatch call, a fire alarm was triggered near Broadmeadow Road in Winnetka, but it was a false alarm caused by an alarm technician or a system error. Battalion 28 and other units responded to the scene.

Audio|Heard on: Red Center Dispatch
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02:53
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 28, truck 28, 28, and battalion 28.
00:04
Fire alarm, near Broadmeadow Road, Winnetka.
00:08
Grid 280,
00:10
Near Broadmeadow Road, fire alarm, engine 28, truck 28,
00:16
and battalion 28.
00:31
I'm on three, three times.
00:56
Ambulance 12 mutual ADMS response for chest pain near Maple Leaf Drive in Glenview, mutual ADMS response, ambulance 12.
01:11
Red for Maynill.
01:15
Red fog, you've been held up.
01:20
Red sign 20th location alarm company unseen.
01:23
I'll be investigating.
01:29
Italian 20 at M.C.
01:30
Italian 20 at M.C.
01:35
Maybe on 12, you return from Columbia.
01:40
Yeah,
01:41
uh,
01:42
Do you want to put us on that accident or the 11's on the way already?
01:50
Any else?
01:51
12, go ahead and head to the accident.
01:57
Received.
02:03
Lake Forest Station 1.
02:05
To test alert, please ignore.
02:07
At disregard test only.
02:09
At disregard test only, test alert, please ignore.
02:13
Lake Forest Station 1.
02:28
We've got the group running route on Volus west of Waukegan.
02:34
On Volk, west of Waukegan, all right.
02:41
That's the time 28th.
02:45
Try that for right.
02:46
Can you repeat?
02:49
Right, that the battalion 28th, the alarm was set off in error by the alarm technician or picked up and returning.

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Location mentioned:
Broadmeadow Rd, Winnetka, IL 60093

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