Fire alarm activation and confirmed small electrical fire in the ceiling of the boys’ bathroom at Nutley Middle School, 325 Franklin Avenue; fire extinguished and ventilation underway., Nutley NJ

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/18/2025 05:48 AM

Nutley, NJ

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire alarm activation and confirmed small electrical fire in the ceiling of the boys’ bathroom at Nutley Middle School, 325 Franklin Avenue; fire extinguished and ventilation underway.

Audio|Heard on: Nutley Fire Dispatch

Listen to dispatch call

05:53

Transcript:

00:00

Nutley Fire, again reports of activated fire alarms at the middle school 325, Franklin Avenue.

00:05

Activated fire alarms called him by PD.

00:23

What a lever respond? No.

00:25

Cool.

00:27

And you want to come in a hillside crest.

00:32

Go up, chestnut, come in off a hillside crest.

00:50

He's a little red credit.

00:58

One's going to be out.

01:00

Are we keeping through the back? There's a bus blocking us.

01:09

So there's a bus blocking the driveway.

01:16

And bring a can.

01:21

Get a cat. Bring a pipe bullet here.

01:47

1.01.

01:49

And you're fine.

01:50

Are you respond to the scene here?

01:53

We have a small fire in the ceiling in the back of the middle school.

01:58

We're leaving now.

02:00

Just got to move a couple vehicles.

02:04

One-on-one.

02:06

Yeah,

02:10

maybe.

02:14

We're going to activate alarms there for that now.

02:17

It's going to coming in for Zone 1.

02:19

Okay.

02:22

Sorry.

02:25

11, you want to sit over?

02:35

Yeah, EMS respond over here.

02:43

There's another one can't bring in it.

02:48

Engine 5.

02:51

Upon your response, bring a lower heart to the rear.

02:57

What do you see as a...

03:03

One-on-one.

03:07

Good.

03:09

Do you need on Medicaid?

03:13

Negative.

03:27

See, just bring a camera in.

03:32

The officer is being advised by school staff that there's a fire in the rear of the building.

03:51

Small fire.

03:54

Yeah,

03:59

confirmed, we're out of team.

04:04

One-11, two, five, two, five is out, engine five is out.

04:10

That's cool.

04:17

Go back with that transmission.

04:23

LG, confirmation, everybody has been evacuated.

04:29

Affirmative, everyone's evacuated.

04:35

The small fire that was caused electrical in the ceiling of the boys' bathroom in the rear.

04:43

Fires been extinguished.

04:44

They're going to be given ventilation.

04:59

Captain Santoro, you're receiving.

05:06

Lion three, receive it.

05:11

Give me the status report, please.

05:16

Yeah,

05:18

Lieutenant McCourt, they isolated the fire into the mechanical room.

05:24

Looks like it's an exhaustive as we speak.

05:40

Chief,

05:42

it's going to be under control.

05:43

We got no extension to this fire.

05:46

We're evaluating now.

05:48

And everybody has evacuated over.

05:52

That four.

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