Flashing light at apartment caused by malfunctioning bulb, Grottoes VA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/16/2025 03:20 PM

Randall Rd, Grottoes, VA 24441

Emergency responders were called to Cambridge Court Apartments for a flashing light outside apartment 13. The light was later found to be a malfunctioning outdoor bulb, not an emergency.

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Situation 1203, Randall Road Bottos.

00:19

Respond and known situation Cambridge Court Apartments 1203, Wendell Road Bottos Cross Streets Augusta Avenue and South East Side Highway and Laurel Oak Lane operate Tech 2.

00:36

1203 Randall Road, apartment number 13.

00:39

Close realizing if there are special lights that flash in this apartment complex when there's an emergency,

00:47

they're stating that there's a light flashing in front of apartment 13.

00:52

The resident is going to be (name withheld).

00:55

Collar doesn't know anything else about the female.

01:03

There's a white interior apartment that is flashing,

01:06

that they live in the end of the client name of (name withheld).

01:11

She doesn't have a package on the letter in front of the apartment, but stated that the number 13,

01:17

that the law sign that this occurred, that somebody had lived,

01:20

deceased.

01:29

Responding 1822.

01:31

We have fire if you just attached.

01:35

Sure.

01:41

The light for 13 is flashing.

01:50

Ready you, I'm going to insert trauma for responding.

01:58

Help.

02:08

Ambulance 981.

02:09

Respond breathing problems 101, 155.

02:12

Oak Circle Lane, McGacky, Stillcroft Street's Dead End and Whispering Pine Lane, Operate TAC2[1].

02:23

Listen to wrong row, operate kind of one.

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338, 338, Free-Mason Run Road, cross streets, Buckland Drive, and George Walton's Road, Upperate County One, 1825.

02:53

I think we found the residence, I don't think it's an arm's fine, I think it's just on outdoor, like, that's flippering with the lightbulb is dead.

Police codes explained

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[1]

TAC2: Tactical Channel 2 (radio operations channel)

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Randall Rd, Grottoes, VA 24441

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Flashing light at apartment caused by malfunctioning bulb, Grottoes VA

Emergency responders were called to Cambridge Court Apartments for a flashing light outside apartment 13. The light was later found to be a malfunctioning outdoor bulb, not an emergency.

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