Fire alarm triggered by extinguisher discharge in hallway, Worcester MA


Fire department responded to fire alarm activations at near Evelyn St and near Granite St with no evidence of fire. The alarm was triggered by someone discharging a fire extinguisher in the hallway, creating smoke but not indicating a real emergency.
Audio|Source: Worcester City Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Pinchel ladder 5, number near Evelyn St, Philithesis.
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Again is the latter 5, number near Evelyn St, solicit, timeout 1355.
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Engine 5 to find out.
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Prove.
00:10
Can you look for the responsible party?
00:11
Engine 5, I did try, attempt to contact a responsible party, no success.
00:15
Okay, we have that.
00:16
Power 22 engine 5.
00:17
Yeah,
00:18
Chief, kind of what you were saying earlier, we had no responsible party, this was just somebody who triggered an answer to the extinguisher in the hallway.
00:23
Do we try for a reset of no re-response, or does it have to be a second or third call?
00:29
No, negative.
00:30
If you already made a good intent and there's no reasonable time of response and based upon the size of the building, as long as you do not silence it, you can attempt to reset for the procedure.
00:41
Okay, we have that, Chief.
00:42
Thank you. We're going to attempt that now.
00:43
Recease.
00:44
3, car 4, number 2 Grand St for the central station alarm.
00:49
Fire ground will be B.
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Company's Habit 1357.
00:51
Okay,
00:52
receive. This the injury?
00:53
Negative. Okay, receive.
00:54
Grab for the fire alarm.
00:55
Fire alarm[1].
00:56
Okay, we'll jump in.
00:57
It's gonna be number near Granite St.
01:02
Alarm company calling in a general, fire alarm for seven hills.
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Okay. Here.
01:06
Thank you, Vivian St, the first responder.
01:08
Timeout 13th of the end.
01:09
Bye. I just have the fireline, you calling us? Yeah, just be advised, I did get the reset on the box here.
01:14
Okay, yeah, we just reset it here.
01:16
It doesn't hold the normal.
01:17
We're going to wait a minute just to make sure it doesn't reset the trigger back again, the hallway so very smoky.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Fire alarm: Fire-related incident notification/dispatch
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Location mentioned:
Near Evelyn St, Worcester, MA 01607
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