Fire alarm triggered and reset at building on Howard Street, Dumont NJ
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a fire alarm was triggered by water flow in stairway 17 of a building on Howard Street but reset itself before emergency crews arrived. The activation was accidental, likely caused by workers performing tasks in the area.
Audio|Heard on: Paramus and Area Towns Police / Fire
Listen to dispatch call
02:2
Transcript:
00:00
I was just informed that they called at (number withheld) to have the boxes thinking out.
00:03
I'm going to contact this, Pat, see if it was actually done.
00:05
I don't remember the run being done.
00:09
flow in stairway 17, but it reset itself prior to us getting you, or when we first got here, it reset.
00:22
Cap, uh, action building, it's,
00:26
uh, alarm point 17.
00:28
Stair 17, water flow.
00:31
That's where this annual alarm came in from.
00:38
Dispatch to Tico Command? No.
00:43
Do you feel a company, go ahead, dispatch?
00:46
Do you feel a company for a still alarm,
00:51
at Howard Street
01:08
Spatched to engine 26.
01:15
The latter.
01:22
There was a miscommunication at this morning at (number withheld).
01:26
They never took the boxes out.
01:27
We're going to go with an accident they'll do the workman.
01:30
You okay with that?
01:36
See, you're done.
01:42
The box.
01:49
Any road command, that's fast.
01:53
The road command.
01:56
We can go with accidental set up by workers.
01:59
We can terminate command and all units being service currently courts.
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Location mentioned:
Howard St, Dumont, NJ 07628
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