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False alarm for house fire near Leitersburg Smithsburg RoadHagerstown MD

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Leitersburg Smithsburg Rd, Hagerstown, MD 21742

As discussed during the dispatch call, multiple fire units responded to a reported house fire near Leitersburg-Smithsburg Road in Washington County. Upon arrival, responders found no evidence of fire and spoke with the occupants. The incident was a false alarm.

Audio|Heard on: Washington County Fire and EMS - Digital
Listen to dispatch call
03:8
Transcript:
00:00
Near Leitersburg-Smithsburg Road house fire and it's company 9 27 can't be at franklinette ambulance two four
00:12
Engine 2, tanker 9, tanker 13, engine tanker 16.
00:18
Franklin letter.
00:21
Franklin rescue engine 2.
00:22
No.
00:23
Meg, 79, 62 under respond.
00:26
Tack one opt, 657.
00:28
657.
00:44
Washington cap nine are sorry.
00:46
It's cap nine tackle one up.
00:50
Okay, twenty seven, four, four.
00:54
Quig twenty seven four four, two.
00:57
Taker nine, two and two and two.
01:12
T-7 washing.
01:15
Washington from T9.
01:22
Delta, so we're not laying out.
01:24
It's about a 100-foot ray.
01:29
Grass engine at one on the scene, nothing evident.
01:31
6.58.
01:37
Mega 9, switch pack one out.
01:40
Chief John Washington, go ahead and Company 7 and Tanger 7 today.
01:48
We'll get another.
01:50
Washington, Tanger, 1302.
01:53
Tanger, 13112, 658.
02:00
Where'd the call come from? Where'd the call come from?
02:05
Stand by.
02:11
Looks like Passerby.
02:16
All right, we're talking to the occupants now.
02:18
They all know what's going on.
02:23
All right. Washington County is on the scene.
02:25
I have Leitersburg District Command.
02:27
Already you get to stage, now I have Perch, Lai's Frick District, hold their first of the hall.
02:33
He's arriving.
02:39
Tax please stay in 659.
02:47
I'm going to ride down on the other thing about anything anywhere else.
02:52
I got me.
03:02
If you got one, there's nothing here if you want to check somewhere else.
03:07
Or call it good extent.

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Location mentioned:
Leitersburg Smithsburg Rd, Hagerstown, MD 21742

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