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False fire alarm triggered by workers at Portland buildingPortland ME

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audio iconFire & Arson
Congress St, Portland, ME 04101

As discussed during the dispatch call, a fire alarm triggered by workers at a building near Congress Street in Portland was confirmed to be a false alarm and cleared by the fire department.

Audio|Heard on: Portland Fire
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01:8
Transcript:
00:00
Attentional stations, striking,
00:02
supervised box 5-6-1 near Congress Street.
00:04
Ladder 1 is already unseen on the boxes, engine 5, engine 6.
00:09
Final 1. 945, sir.
00:11
And you're going to be on channel free.
00:16
Channel 3.
00:20
Okay. Okay.
00:21
Go on C. Copy. Goose.
00:23
Okay.
00:26
Goose. Okay.
00:27
Okay. Control. You can switch over to free.
00:29
Channel 3.
00:33
Copy. Goose.
00:34
Okay.
00:39
Congress command file on.
00:45
Answering Pongtree, commit.
00:49
Been off by workers, this is going to reset, right there we call command terminated.
00:59
10-4 phone file, I'm checking the recall on C-Vubbubb 2.03.
01:04
Set off by workers,
01:07
recalls at 12, 100 hours.

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Location mentioned:
Congress St, Portland, ME 04101
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Incident Timeline

  1. Follow-Up and System Reset
  2. On-Scene Investigation
  3. Initial Dispatch to 477 Congress Street

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