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Chemical odor triggers fire alarm in Elizabeth building 

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Near Spring St, Elizabeth, NJ 07201
A fire alarm was triggered due to a strange chemical smell in the elevator lobby of a building. Fire department and maintenance staff inspected the area and found no signs of smoke or fire. The source of the odor remains unclear, but no immediate danger was detected.
Audio|Source: Elizabeth Fire Department
05:47

Transcript:
All come in. Answer. All right, just peervies. The paddle indicates 9th floor south building, elevator lobby. I'm 9-4 now in the elevator lobby. Maintenance appears just a framing of a slow... You're up there now with them? or like cleaning products. Did you have an activated head or was this a pull station? ...activated head and the staff I'm with now didn't pull any pull stations out of there. I'm going to keep looking around if there's any other pull Man from anyone, Bravo. Do you have any other maintenance staff with you in the security office? Hold on, (name withheld), we'd check it. I received. I do recall being here once before in maintenance saying this odor has been an ongoing issue and haven't been able to determine the source. How do you want to the engine 1B? Answer. Right, do you have a lady from maintenance with this? Yes, affirmative, the murder with maintenance just arrived. Take a quick look upstairs in the mechanical room. Okay, it's... The alarm panel is shown an activated head. It appears. Nobody down here has any idea about the alarm. All right, receipt. Another look for an activated head. So far nothing by the 9-4 elevator, Lovito. Engine 1 bar will come out. All right, if this helps, detector number, M4-5-6. M4-56[1]. M-4-56? Yeah, Amazon Mary 4-5-6. Appreciate, thank you. We're achieved 9-054. Command problem, engine one, Bravo? Answer, number one, catch. The answer to nudge 1. The achievement this time, we've investigated the entire 9th floor. No smoke, no fire, no activated heads at warpole stations. Just that chemical-like odor. From a security rep to get into the boiler room above, they should be returning shortly. All right, receive dispatch copy. We're going to make it a floor away. signal 408 holding engine 1 and ladder 3 all other units are available. This match, we're going to transfer command to battalion 2. Receive battalion 2 has command. All right, we get into access to the elevator machine room on the floor above. No smoke, no fire, no odor in here. Scan the room with the thermal engine camera. All temperatures normal. This mirror just seems to be confined to that 9th floor elevator vestibule. Doesn't really seem to be any cause at this time. All right, we see. We're working on a reset. Receive, I'll stand by on 9. Let you know anything else up here.

Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
M4-56: Alarm Detector Number

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Near Spring St, Elizabeth, NJ 07201
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