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Fire alarm triggered by faulty light at local churchLincoln NE

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Near Morton St, Lincoln, NE 68521

A fire alarm was triggered at the House of Prayer church near Morton St. Fire responders arrived but found no fire or danger. The alarm was caused by a malfunctioning landscaping light flashing near the building.

Audio|Source: Lincoln Police and Fire, Lancaster County Sheriff
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Transcript:
00:00
Engine 10 and truck 1.
00:02
Zone 33. Fire alarm.
00:04
At near Morton St.
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Respond on Tech 3.
00:08
Engine 10 and truck 1 respond to Zone 33 Fire alarm at near Morton St respond on TAC 3[1]
00:18
Perkinson center out
00:19
Engine tag truck one, verifying a fire alarm, zone 33 at near Morton St, House of Prayer.
00:27
Pass her by report seeing flashing lights that she believes her possible fire alarm going off there.
00:32
The old tack three, tack three.
00:34
24 will go to a little in our force It's Raymond Zimmerout area 56 and bluff road possible grass fire the south of five
00:52
These attends on location, have nothing showing from a medium-sized, one-story, church structure.
00:59
It appears to be that a landscaping light has gone bad and it's flashing, no fire alarm.
01:05
We'll go ahead and check it out.
01:06
Truck 1, you can return to service.
01:07
Clear, landscape light.
01:08
Can you check fine?
01:09
Good.
01:11
18-2.
01:12
Good.
01:13
The Nature Unknown, 2446 South Canterbury Lane.
01:17
I have a text to 911.
01:18
They texted that they need someone to this address.
01:21
They haven't responded when asked what was going on.
01:24
The phone number is not in locals.
01:26
I don't show that this address exists.
01:29
It looks like there are a couple of townhouses there.
01:31
This is the address that was given no premise.
01:33
2446 South Canterbury.
01:35
Where's there?
01:38
Finally. 186-9. Go ahead.
01:42
We've got a phone call in on 9-1.
01:45
A female said somebody killed themselves and hung up.
01:48
Go ahead. Looks like this may be a fourplex.
01:50
We're found here with a landscaping light that stroving.
01:53
Has no issue with the church.
01:55
We are able to see the fire panel inside the church.
01:57
Through the door, it says all systems normal.
01:59
We're going to be returning the service.
02:00
There's no issues here.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
TAC 3: Tactical radio channel 3 used for operations and incident communications.

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Near Morton St, Lincoln, NE 68521

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