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Fire alarm triggered at a Cambridge building with no smoke, Cambridge MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 10/27/2025 09:10 AM

Near West St, Cambridge, MA 02139

A fire alarm was activated at McGregor W-61 in Cambridge. Firefighters arrived and found no visible smoke. They investigated and suspected the alarm was triggered by a faulty smoke detector or a false alarm.

Audio|Source: MIT Police and EMS

01:16

Transcript:

00:00

You guys can head over to McGregor W-61 for a fire alarm.

00:07

Recite.

00:09

Let's go ahead.

00:13

Where's got you?

00:15

Mr. (name withheld), you can move you off.

00:17

Chrisie.

00:18

Okay, now control.

00:20

Control Lung.

00:22

What are going on?

00:25

Receive. The control on the Fire Lung is State 4-4-Hur1.

00:38

There's some sort of smoke detector coming from a closet.

00:41

I'll be heading out to check it out.

00:44

Proceed.

00:49

Control the temperature is off.

00:51

Bruce.

00:57

Wait through the control.

00:59

Control's on.

01:04

So I'm off at level 4.

01:07

There's no smoke showing it on this level here.

01:10

I've done check in.

01:14

But I can't find that wrong.

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Near West St, Cambridge, MA 02139

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