False alarm from burnt popcorn at middle school, Demarest NJ
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire department responded to a fire alarm at Demarest Middle School near Orchard and Northwood Avenue. The cause was found to be burnt popcorn in room 136, resulting in no fire.
Audio|Heard on: Bergen County Battalion 2 Fire Operations
Listen to dispatch call
05:22
Transcript:
00:00
Nine car one at Brockham.
00:03
Nine call one.
00:06
You're starting to the summer school.
00:12
Three, Steve.
00:14
Send by your call behind you.
00:22
9-4-1, your cross is Orchard and Northwood Ave.
00:26
The high-out outside of this school.
00:30
No, go.
00:32
Forest floor,
00:34
activation,
00:35
room 136, sir.
00:39
136, sir.
00:40
Every two.
00:46
26 car 2 o'clock, I'm responding number.
00:51
3214 cars you're going to Demarest Middle School at 950.
00:59
Fire, count 24, responding.
01:01
Your mom.
01:03
Recease 26-1, 9502.
01:13
Firecom to units just wanting me to Demarest, update from PD.
01:17
It appears to be burnt popcorn being cropped on a hopoly, room with 3-136.
01:25
9-call-1 received.
01:29
26 October 2nd.
01:36
9-car-1-5-combe.
01:38
Okay.
01:41
I'm on the scene, 560, and I'm on road and take two-story educational facility of the establishing plan.
01:48
Ray,
01:50
can I take four.
02:00
2644-4-4-commonacy.
02:04
Reasons.
02:05
Recessant.
02:10
Business button together, Uber.
02:17
Receive, 955.
02:26
No agent to fire come.
02:29
Go Firecum.
02:31
Just slide 5668 here, call up until.
02:35
I reach you and I fit the second.
02:41
Twenty-six, you're on the wrong by or not.
02:44
Go ahead.
02:48
As part of the box, they're done it, it's covers.
02:52
Reaching.
02:59
9-4-0-4-combe.
03:02
No fire come.
03:05
Did you dispatch, Cresco?
03:08
Okay, sir.
03:11
Number.
03:17
Nine engine two fire come.
03:20
Good.
03:22
I'm just seeing first arriving here, and we have wrong water.
03:26
Reaching.
03:31
And just we're leaving on the street there.
03:39
Hocker, you catch it.
03:43
Three chiefs.
03:45
Five again.
03:49
The block. We got it.
03:55
We'll pull you up.
03:57
Three chiefs, 957.
04:04
Twenty-six truck on fire, how you can show us on the first due truck off company.
04:14
Appreciate...
04:33
Concerns that all due to awkward, I'm going to go for a reset.
04:39
Okay, you need a, I got a transfer of you either.
04:45
That you make sense.
04:49
You have an engine want to fire come?
04:57
Good.
04:59
Do you show engine 1 in service with 3d Demmer?
05:04
FreeC, not taking on.
05:07
Okay,
05:11
my roll, command if I come.
05:13
Go ahead.
05:16
Confirm, cooking smoke.
05:17
I'm going to hold with a 26 truck and 9 engine.
05:21
You can have it with a returner remade.
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This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.
Location mentioned:
Piermont Rd, Demarest, NJ 07627
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