Fire alarm investigated at Chippenham Hospital, Richmond VA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a fire alarm at Chippenham Hospital on Jahnke Road in Richmond. Units investigated a heat detector alarm in the elevator room of the hospital’s parking deck. No smoke, fire, or hazards were found, and the scene was cleared after inspection.
Audio|Heard on: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Engine 23, engine 20, engine 24, truck 9,
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Battalion 4.
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Fire alarm near Jahnke Road at Chippenham Hospital.
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Engine 23, engine 20, engine 24, truck nine, battalion four.
00:14
Fire alarm near Jahnke Road at the hospital.
00:18
Cross street is Hayek's Road on Tech Channel 2.
00:20
I'm out.
00:26
Can you show Battalion Four en route? Switching to Attack Two.
00:29
NJC not responding.
00:33
Copy.
00:39
Show no companies around Jahnke Road, Chippenham Hospital for the fire alarm heat detector.
00:47
No further.
00:48
Show no companies en route, 641 hours.
00:50
Engine 23 is on scene.
00:54
Hospital facility, nothing showing.
00:56
Flags alpha, delta, and charlie.
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23 will have.
01:01
Jahnke Road command be investigator.
01:06
Engine 23 on scene, hospital facility, nothing showing.
01:10
Engine 23 has command, investigating 644.
01:17
I have four on scene.
01:18
Twenty-three retaining command during the investigation.
01:21
Performing at 368.
01:27
Have beside four on scene performing at 360.
01:30
Engine twenty-three remain in command.
01:31
Six hundred and forty-five out.
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Nine, you are arriving on scene.
01:38
Please give the investigative group a hand.
01:45
(Name withheld) from Battalion Four, 360 complete.
01:47
Nothing evident on the exterior.
01:51
Three hundred sixty complete, nothing evident for an exterior 247.
01:59
Come out 24, we're investigating a heat detector in the elevator room of the parking deck.
02:07
Made it to the room.
02:08
Received. Alarms going off in the parking deck only, not the main hospital.
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Location mentioned:
Jahnke Rd, Richmond, VA 23225
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