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False fire alarm at East Main Street due to maintenance 

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Near E Main St, Richmond, VA 23219
Fire responders were called to 700 East Main Street for a fire alarm. It was found to be a false alarm caused by maintenance work on the fire protection system. No fire was present.
Audio|Source: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
03:22

Transcript:
Engine 5, Engine 1, Engine 11, Trot 2, and Battalion 1. Fire alarm[1]. 700, East Main Street, at Trust Office Business CTR. Engine 5, Engine 1, Engine 11, Trot 2, and Battalion 1. Fire alarm. 700. East Main Street at Trust Office Business CTR. Cross Streets or North 7th Street and South 8th Street. On Tap Channel 2. Time out. 1155. 55 Richmond. Truck file. Vodden. Stayed they're going to babysit the trailer until VSP, you know, same command, terminated truck fine, return to service. 1157 rows. Company's shorter route, separate from east main for the general fire alarm. Report about a little company. Show his own little important information. Inger 5's arriving, watch the store of high-rise. Something visible on the other side. Injof-Fivex command will be investigated. Injure 5, all the scene is 700 East Main. Something visible from Alpha, we'll investigate, half east main command 11 59. The Italian War was on scene, 700 East Main Street. Five to retain command within investigate. Let's see if the Italian word was seen, engine 5, will investigate also retain the command of left 599. Van from truck to you. You got a fire protection system truck out front. Can you confirm the address and location of this alarm? We're in the 700 building, which is the 700 block of East Main Street. This isn't showing normal, but it's going through a trouble. The boss and the mom came from homewoods, we say, helping it. Merci. Command from Truck 2, Main Street, Command from Truck 2. All right, I'm here with fire system technician, (name withheld) maintenance. They're working on the system. It did not go through on test mode. He's going to go back and put it in test mode. But they're just working on the system. There's no issue. Mr. (name withheld), I was a little confused with it. It said it was a Troil Center. Thank you for the information. Richard from Main Street, Command, Ohio, companies return to back to service. Proceed. So I vote three.

Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Fire alarm: Activation of a fire alarm system indicating a possible fire emergency

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Near E Main St, Richmond, VA 23219
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