Drunk tenant triggers alarm by smoking indoors, Des Moines IA
The fire department responded to an alarm near 24th Street and found a tenant who was drunk and smoking inside. This caused the alarm to go off. The tenant refused to stop smoking or go outside. Police assistance was requested. No fire was found on the scene.
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Transcript:
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24 Street on a private alarm.
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Engine 4, Truck 1, Person, 1 on Fireground 5, 403.
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This message, engine 4, you can put truck 1, back, we'll investigate.
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This match, Kathy, Chuck 1, are you direct?
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Dispatch the truck one?
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Dispatch from truck one, would you say?
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Engine Fort, disregard of you, I'll show you back then.
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Truck One, copy.
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Engine 4 is right.
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Dispatch engine 4th.
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We have an individual inside that refuses smoking, cigarette inside.
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Can you get a PD here?
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Probably.
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Both problems.
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I want to wait.
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Both units obvious is the fire department, near 24th Street.
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May I've got an alarm going on here, and so the tenant is drunk and smoking and setting the alarms off, refusing to stop.
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Go ahead, sir.
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There's no fire, there's just an individual inside that is smoking underneath the smoke detector.
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We tried to reset it, we can, he refuses to go outside,
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and so you might need a PD there to help with it, but there's no fire, so we're going to be back in service.
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Location mentioned:
Near 24th St, Des Moines, IA 50311
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