Alarm activation and report of possible laundry room fire at Sycamore House, 159 Commonwealth Ave, UMass., Amherst MA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, alarm activation and report of possible laundry room fire at Sycamore House, 159 Commonwealth Ave, UMass.
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04:37
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 2. Enter 2, on air, Sycamorehouse, crew 3.
00:06
Engine 2 on air to Sycamore House with a crew at 1750.
00:12
Engine 2 on air to Sycamore House with a crew at 1750.
00:21
Engine 2 from 179.
00:27
Let's do that.
00:30
Engine 2, UMass is called with an update that the alarm has now changed to a water flow alarm.
00:41
Appreciate.
00:50
759 a1 Go ahead A1 A1 back course
01:01
A1 back in quarters at 1751
01:17
Attention 5-1, engine 1, still alarm.
01:21
Attention 5-1, engine 1, still alarm.
01:24
Respond 183 University Drive at the Goodwill for an odor investigation of a heavy smell of natural gas in the back room.
01:34
Respond 183 University Drive at the Goodwill for heavy gas smell at 1752.
01:46
Engine 2 from 729.
01:51
This is up.
01:55
Engine 2, we just got a call from a party on scene who states that there may be a fire in the laundry room on the first floor of Sycamore House.
02:07
Receive to robots.
02:29
Attention all Amherst Units box alarm.
02:33
Attention all Amherst Unit, box alarm.
02:37
Respond 159 Commonwealth Ave, the Sycamore House at UMass.
02:43
For a report of a laundry room fire on the first floor,
02:47
respond 159 Commonwealth Ave, the Sycamore House at UMass at 1754.
03:01
179 and engine two.
03:04
Head engine two.
03:08
Not seen multi-story dormitory, nothing showing,
03:14
establishing the Sycamore command,
03:16
going to fire ground, investigating.
03:21
Engine two, on scene multi-story dorm with nothing showing, establishing command going to fire ground 1755.
03:34
79, NG1. Go ahead, engine one.
03:38
NG1 is on the air for 180 University Drive crew 3, for the order in debt.
03:44
Engine 1 on Air for 183 University Drive at the Goodwill, 1756.
03:53
That was on an X2.
03:57
Go ahead X2.
03:58
Go ahead X2.
04:05
X2, go ahead.
04:09
X2 on-air responding to Sycamore House.
04:14
X2 on-air responding to Sycamore House at 1756.
04:24
1791.
04:27
Go ahead A1.
04:29
A1 responding to Sycamore House.
04:33
A1 on air responding to Sycamore House at 1757.
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Location mentioned:
Commonwealth Ave, Amherst, MA 01002
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