False alarm at Worcester rest home due to faulty system, Worcester MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/19/2025 01:29 AM

Near Cambridge St, Worcester, MA 01610

Police responded to a motion alarm at a rest home near Cambridge Street in Worcester. The alarm was a false activation caused by a faulty system that has been recurring for several days. Staff indicated they are working to fix the problem.

Audio|Source: Worcester City Police

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Transcript:

00:00

The commercial alarm.

00:09

Near Cambridge Street rest home getting office motion alarm.

00:17

00:19

12.

00:20

Recent.

00:28

14.

00:31

Can I get our number?

00:39

(number withheld). (number withheld).

00:41

(number withheld).

00:45

Talk for kids.

00:50

Too good.

00:52

52 Country Club Boulevard was a trespass.

00:56

We have security calling, requesting help removing the same two girls.

01:01

Our trespassed earlier,

01:03

(name withheld) is currently on the 6th floor of staying on doors.

01:07

And the other female is walking around.

01:09

We don't have an exact location she was last seen in the trash room.

01:15

I got that.

01:18

Receive three doses?

01:22

Three again.

01:28

Thank you.

01:30

Five, you can add me to that.

01:33

I have that, thank you.

01:42

14.

01:48

You can show code 5 that female's been trespassed from the property and can you just backfill a (name withheld)? It's going to be Yankee, Oster, Lima,

01:59

Alpha, November, Delta, Alpha,

02:02

and then last name, (name withheld),

02:05

Lima, Oscar,

02:07

Romeo, Echo,

02:08

November, Zulu, Alpha, November Alpha,

02:12

(number withheld).

02:20

You received.

02:28

Eleven.

02:30

Go ahead.

02:32

There's just the chefs opening up for the day.

02:36

You can go to the false.

02:37

This alarm has been going off the past few days around the same time.

02:41

They said that the alarm isn't still faulty and they're working on it.

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Near Cambridge St, Worcester, MA 01610

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