Fire alarm triggered in Cambridge building yard, Cambridge MA
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was triggered in a building yard near Kirkland St in Cambridge. The cause was a power loss affecting the fire pump system. Fire crews investigated the alarm but found no active fire or smoke.
Audio|Source: Cambridge Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Latitude to command.
00:01
Go ahead, Latitude.
00:03
Nothing obvious from this vantage point.
00:07
All right, we got a beacon going off in the yard here on a building.
00:11
I sent engine three in there to investigate.
00:13
You want to head that direction? Help them out.
00:15
We have that.
00:16
All out. Come here two, engine three.
00:18
Engine three. Engine three.
00:19
Allegedly, someone's coming out to the yard to me to assist.
00:23
This might have to do with the power loss of the experience.
00:27
Okay, Paul, we're outside fire pump rooms and neither of the fire pumps are running.
00:31
All right, see if you can find, uh,
00:33
follow up as a sub-panel in there, anything else.
00:35
Front Street command to firelock.
00:38
Call on Rachel.
00:39
Is this an update? We're investigating an activation in the crane bay.
00:43
We're in the process of trying to find that area.
00:45
It's a water flow.
00:46
At this point, neither fire pump is running, so we'll continue to investigate.
00:50
We're trying to locate staff to help us out.
00:52
Parliament has a water flow in the crane bay trying to locate.
00:55
How did it?
00:56
Engine 300 to come in.
00:57
Come here, Dancer.
00:58
I'm with a vicinity rep right now.
01:00
They lost power, one of their transformers, they was lost on over to temporary power, which kicked on a jockey pump to the diesel fire pump.
01:08
They then shut it down.
01:09
I think that's what's took me along.
01:11
All right, I'm going to, we're going to try for a reset over here.
01:14
104. Engine 5, you're offset.
01:17
5 has that.
01:18
Command 2, engine 3.
01:19
We had a 2 to come in.
01:20
You can go ahead with your message.
01:21
I'm asked our facility rep.
01:23
This is another panel anyway here.
01:25
This panel does not seem to be cooperating and we cannot silence or reset it.
01:30
Injure 5 files.
01:31
Okay, hold on.
01:32
All right, sir.
01:33
Clear by command.
01:34
Inger 5 is available.
01:35
Three hundred a command.
01:36
Available. Command answering.
01:37
At injury, you can walk with the proximity reps.
01:39
He has a panel.
01:40
It's a couple minute walk from there.
01:41
We can try and re-start from it.
01:42
All right, thank you.
01:43
Command is a ladder, too.
01:44
You can make up if you like.
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Location mentioned:
Harvard Yard, 2 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138
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