Fire alarm activated at two high-rise buildings in Des Moines, Des Moines IA
Fire & ArsonA fire alarm sounded at two high-rise buildings near Walnut and Mulberry streets in Des Moines. Fire crews responded and found an activated pull station on the seventh floor of one building. There was no sign of fire or smoke. It appeared that someone tampered with the alarm system recently. Authorities are investigating the false alarm.
Audio|Source: Des Moines Fire/EMS
05:42
Transcript:
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D.C. 1, Engine 1, Medic 1, Truck 1.
00:03
Station 1, your head, A.
00:05
800 Walnut.
00:06
Private alarm, high rise.
00:08
Station 1, response 1, fire 5, time at 1932.
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Engine 4, Medic 4.
00:17
Medic 4. 13,
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17, 8th, street, 13, 17, 8th, on the fall.
00:21
Agent, Medic 4, Response 3, Channel 2, time on 1932.
00:29
Agent 4, medics, for you guys, I had around the corner, 13178th, 8th, on the fall.
00:35
Patient is going to be a 62-year-old female, not alert, with constant breathing, so let's hit her head on the bed.
00:40
Lots of yelling scream in the background.
00:48
We're supposed to get another engine on high-rise.
00:51
Yeah,
00:54
that's my apologies. Do you want me go on and start another engine, or are we good at this time?
00:59
Negative, I think we're good at this time.
01:00
This is a return trip for us.
01:03
So we're going to call the guy that was supposed to show up last time.
01:06
We'll let you know if we need something.
01:10
Copy, we already actually gave Matt a call, and he's going to be working on getting somebody on site for you.
01:17
Oh,
01:18
that's wonderful.
01:20
We talked to him last time.
01:22
He was supposed to bring a key down.
01:26
We'll see if he did that.
01:29
Copy. Let me go.
01:35
Spatch DC-1 is available.
01:38
Copy the DC-1.
01:39
Copy the DC-1.
01:43
Do one dispatch.
01:47
Go ahead, sir.
01:49
We just drove past 800 Mulberry at the parking ramp and we see strobes going off there.
01:56
Not sure if it's connected to the same system or not, do you have a call for that area?
02:06
Yeah, that I am not sure of.
02:08
I'll go ahead and do some research to what I can find.
02:15
We've arrived at 800 Walnut.
02:17
There's no strobes or anything going on here.
02:19
We'll investigate.
02:23
Copy.
02:28
Engine 1 from Truck 1.
02:30
Do you want us to check out that 800 Mulberry's what's going on there?
02:33
Yeah,
02:38
why don't you? I'll see if something's on the panel here.
02:44
All right, we're going to head over to that side.
02:45
We'll be in contact the radio.
02:51
Sounds good.
02:56
Do you want to truck one, it looks like it was a different security company that called in a different private alarm at the under Mulberry, but I can go and try to contact them, see if I can get any additional keyholder info.
03:11
Do you want to dispatch? There are no alarms going off at 800 Walnut.
03:19
Copy on, Joana.
03:20
It sounds like the same company manages both places, but 800 Walnut as well as 800 Mulberry.
03:27
Incent, do you have traffic for dispatch?
03:35
We're going to be available here.
03:37
There is some, there's a fire alarm going off in one of the individual residents where we're unable to gain access.
03:42
There's no smoke or smell.
03:44
No one's home.
03:45
We told the neighbor to let us know.
03:47
It's not changes here shortly.
03:50
Grab that engine, 10.
03:56
They have dispatched engine one.
03:59
Go ahead.
04:01
Do you need them to respond out there?
04:08
Yeah, they probably should.
04:11
Talk to let them know.
04:17
Do one, Truck One?
04:19
Truck One,
04:22
go ahead. We have accessed the panel here and we got ourselves a pull station that's been activated.
04:30
I've got my three, my engineer and two firefighters are going up to investigate.
04:39
Copy that. We'll come that way.
04:41
There's nothing going on here at this building.
04:48
In NJ1, Truck 1, it sounds like Martin did advise that they had a homeless person who was messing with the panel a week or so ago.
04:55
It advised me for me to get some PD presents out there.
05:02
I don't see anybody over on this side.
05:05
Chuck One, do you see any homeless around there? You want to check out?
05:11
No, we haven't.
05:13
The crew might let me know on their way up if they found anybody, but there's nobody on the ground level over here, knowing the skywalk that we saw, acting suspicious, or being here that they should be.
05:26
We'll see Paulin from NG.
05:28
We have a pull station on the stairwell on the seventh floor.
05:36
Paul and copies.
05:37
I'm just checking the keys right here at the pull station on the first floor to make sure I have the right key to bring up to you.
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Location mentioned:
Near Mulberry St, Des Moines, IA 50309
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