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False fire alarm triggered by mop bucket waterNewton MA

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Pleasant St, Newton Centre, MA 02459

According to the dispatch call, a fire alarm was activated at Mason Rice School near Pleasant Street. Emergency units responded, but the alarm was a false alarm caused by a custodian accidentally knocking over a mop bucket, spilling water on the fire detector.

Audio|Heard on: Newton Police and Fire
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04:56
Transcript:
00:00
Box 741 for the Mason Rice School near Pleasant Street.
00:05
The response is engine 7 in place of engine 3, engine 4, ladder 1, rescue 1.
00:11
Again, fire alarm received box 711 for the Mason Rice School near Pleasant Street.
00:18
The response is engine 7, engine 4, ladder 1, rescue 1, 1917.
00:30
Engine 7 said that.
00:34
Received, engine 7, you have it, 1918.
00:42
The alarm received and transmitted box 7-411 for the Mason Rice School near Pleasant Street.
00:49
Responding is Engine 7, Engine 4, Ladder 1, Rescue 1,
00:54
1919.
00:59
Frye on Ladder 2.
01:01
Fire alarm mansion, Ladder 2.
01:05
9 340, Boilson.
01:10
Should ladder 2, you're off, 1919.
01:26
Two-medic 5, engine Tumatic 5, respond to 86-wop, and after a 56-year-old female conscious breathing who took a fall,
01:40
possible broken hip.
01:41
Again, that's engine Tumatic 5, respond to 86-wop-in-aft,
01:45
for a 56-year-old female conscious breathing who took a fall down stairs, possible broken hip,
01:51
1921.
02:00
Receive, let me excite you have.
02:04
Fire alarm engine one.
02:07
Rescue one.
02:08
Mesa RISOF command.
02:11
Receive rescue, off, off, that Mason and ISEO off command, 1922.
02:14
...make 5. He responded to 86 Swamp and Ave for a 56-year-old female conscious breathing, who took a fall down to stairs, possible broken hip.
02:28
Mayor Spoggs 5-2 Beacon Street, Windsor Road, 1922.
02:41
Attention, Medic 4.
02:43
Respond to near Chestnut Hill Road for a 78-year-old female conscious in breathing with abdominal pain.
02:49
Again, that's Medic 4.
02:50
Respond to near Chestnut Hill Road for 78 year old female conscious breathing with abdominal pain near Spock's Chestnut Hill Road in Malia Terrace, 1923.
03:02
Nice for responding.
03:04
Receive legs for, you have it.
03:08
Rush, you want a firearm?
03:11
Friendly mention rescue one.
03:13
The report of a 740 and custodian knocked over a mop bucket water through a detector.
03:21
We're investigating.
03:25
Receive, looks like it's going to be a code 740, so you knocked the water bucket over into a detector.
03:30
You're investigating 1923.
03:48
Check the notes on this call.
03:53
What do you see if we have?
03:55
Do you see? Fire alarm, medic five.
04:04
Just check the bricks on this call.
04:09
Roger.
04:17
Louddy, you can stand by outside.
04:28
Receive. Receive.
04:29
Receive.
04:36
Too helpful?
04:38
Yeah,
04:40
Chief, we're all of that. It's just a local, um,
04:42
multi-detecta.
04:47
Fire alarm, you have that latitude to handle?
04:51
The C2, light of two to handle.
04:56
1926.

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Pleasant St, Newton Centre, MA 02459
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