False fire alarm at McCarthy Middle School after outage, Chelmsford MA
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm was triggered at McCarthy Middle School due to motion detected in the boiler room and rear hallway. Fire crews investigated but found no sign of fire. The alarm was likely caused by a recent power outage affecting the area.
Audio|Source: Chelmsford Police and Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Can you enter the McCarthy Middle School. It's got a Calvin Malarm company stating a boiler room and rear hallway motion.
00:09
Go ahead, file. To speed rise before the alarms came in, we did have a power outage here.
00:19
We also got a call for alarm sounding at near North Rd Unit 70.
00:33
Receive, I'll take near North Rd, have engine 3, and then 2 continue to 1 Old North Road.
00:41
Receive, F3. They're responding to near North Road, Unit 70, engine 2, engine 3rd, engine 3rd,000, engine 3rd, engine 3rd, engine 3rd.
01:03
Thank you.
01:10
By-all, I'm engine two going off, one old block road, three-story office building.
01:16
Nothing showing, engine two out command.
01:21
Until you're on scene, three-story office building, nothing showing yet tonight.
01:28
Three midnight to Johnson.
01:32
Three midnight to Johnson.
01:35
Midnight. Midnight.
01:37
Ida McConawaywayway too.
01:41
Where's it?
01:47
Chair Chilson.
01:51
Gotcha.
01:56
Alio.
01:59
Visit.
02:07
3, you're unseen, 1-0-0-road.
02:12
Final alarm, F-3 is off,
02:14
near on the road.
02:17
Two-story wood frame, nothing showing, alarm sounding.
02:22
F-3, you're unseen, near on-road, three-story wood frame. All right, that was... Nothing showing, alarm, sounding.
02:33
All right, sounding.
02:38
Later, when you're on responding,
02:41
one old north road for the fireline activation.
03:08
Three minutes.
03:10
Oh,
03:11
you're all offered them.
03:16
McKinney, unit 66, investigating.
03:22
Round of 153. Number one, five, three.
03:32
Don't you stage out on North Road in front of Macaacci?
03:36
So we know where we needed.
03:40
Good to you stage in front of Makazi.
03:50
Three early nights, Chalmers.
03:53
Early nights.
03:56
Alright, this is a section of dawn that's out of power. If you just want to notify the grid, I'm not sure if it's a transformer move down here or anything, but I'll just let them know to come check the area when they can.
04:08
Racy's.
04:23
It's probably going to get several more alarms. We made entry to the McCarthy.
04:26
It seems to be all said in our related issue.
04:30
Recease.
04:37
No alarm sounding.
04:39
Main panel is clear, normal.
04:44
We'll take a run through and investigate.
04:51
You see the command.
04:53
Main panel is clear.
04:56
They're here, I'm sounding.
04:57
I'm going to take a warrant through to make sure of...
05:03
...load for early alarm activation.
05:06
There's multiple phones.
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Location mentioned:
Near North Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824
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