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Smoke odor from cooking triggers fire alarm at meriden salonMeriden CT

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W Main St, Meriden, CT 06451

As discussed during the dispatch call, a fire alarm sounded at Lux Beauty Salon on West Main Street in Meriden. Responders investigated and found a smoke odor from burnt food in apartment seven. No fire was present, and the call was cleared.

Audio|Heard on: Meriden Fire Operations
Listen to dispatch call
02:35
Transcript:
00:00
Truck one, engine two, engine three, car four, car nine, near West Main Street, Lux Beauty Salon, LLC, fire alarm sounding.
00:17
Car 4 respond.
00:20
Engine green room.
00:24
Engine two responding.
00:28
Truck on the room.
00:32
Engine 2 engine 4.
00:37
Near West Main Street.
00:39
Cross streets, North 1st Street, North 2nd Street for a fire alarm sounding.
00:47
Caller is now saying that there's a smoke odor in the building trying to locate where.
00:54
Call 4, engine 5, do you want to find it?
01:00
What's your location?
01:03
Where in the door?
01:05
What's that?
01:08
You can come cold green for now.
01:13
Fireless hunting,
01:15
four-story tax pair, up and showing.
01:18
Click on to be investigating.
01:20
Car 9 on scene, four stories, nothing shown, car 9 investigating.
01:26
Thy alarm has the message engine 5 that you'll be responding code green.
01:31
Car 9 from Fireland.
01:34
Car 4 on scene, West Main command.
01:36
Go ahead with your message.
01:38
Carfour, unseen, car four west main command,
01:41
update callers reporting that smells like burnt food from apartment seven.
01:48
Roger, apartment seven.
01:50
And now...
01:53
And two is unseen.
01:56
And two unseen.
01:55
Engine 3 is not seen hydrant.
02:00
Engine 3 unseen hydrant.
02:01
3 unseen hydrant.
02:09
Confirm. Confirm,
02:11
smoke from cooking, holding engines.
02:24
And if this,
02:26
car four is available.
02:29
Affirm smoke from cooking,
02:32
holding engine two, the rest of the assignment is dismissed.

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W Main St, Meriden, CT 06451

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