Elevator alarm triggers response at apartment complex, Broward County FL

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/9/2025 03:26 PM

N Federal Hwy, Florida

Units responded to an elevator alarm at an apartment complex on North Federal Highway. The alarm was triggered from inside the elevator. The leasing office was closed, and there was no emergency maintenance contact available. The alarm company did not have an emergency call-out person. No immediate danger or emergency was found.

Audio|Source: Broward County Fire/Rescue

02:5

Transcript:

00:00

Engine one.

00:06

All right, sir, call back the alarm company and they say they don't have an emergency call-out person, said because the person comes from inside the elevator.

00:18

Also,

00:19

the leasing office is closed.

00:24

I don't have any emergency maintenance.

00:27

I need a call.

00:33

Okay, do you have an elevator company meeting?

00:37

Yeah, it's central alarm.

00:39

That's what I called.

00:47

Copy. So they're getting an alarm from the elevator itself,

00:51

which is contact me has the response.

00:55

For Northwest 16 plates.

01:01

go from the elevator straight into their alarm company.

01:08

She said they don't have anybody.

01:15

This is apartment complex and you have no elevator emergency colonel of your offer.

01:22

That's correct.

01:24

That's what they told me.

01:25

And the alarm, the...

01:27

Office hours is closed,

01:30

the leasing office.

01:36

Okay, because the residents are saying you don't have it either, so I guess we have no emergency call-out, but it's complex.

01:43

There's no...

01:44

Assistance, we're going to go back to the radio for the south.

01:47

Engine One, there's no sign for any other phone number on the elevators or anything.

01:56

We just have the main office loan numbers, probably the same one you have.

02:03

No,

02:04

I don't have anything, sorry.

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