False fire alarm at Sacred Heart Cathedral High School, San Francisco CA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/10/2025 09:49 AM

Near Ellis St, San Francisco, CA 94109

Fire units responded to a fire alarm at Sacred Heart Cathedral High School near Ellis Street. The alarm was found to be false and caused by nearby construction activity.

Audio|Source: San Francisco City Fire and EMS

02:37

Transcript:

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Building the alarm box 3-221, location Sacred Heart Cathedral High School, near Ellis Street.

00:06

Units to 238, truck 3, battalion 4, responding to TAC 14.

00:17

5904 and B-16.

00:24

Location near Gavard Road, Custle Lincoln and Eddy Road.

00:28

Units 2501, truck 16, battalion 5, respond to 8, tag 15.

00:36

Respond A2, tag 15.

00:41

Go 13, 114.

00:43

Repost Oakland Oakland.

00:47

Have you.

00:52

Hi to the 5-60-second reset, with the Italian 1-Tag 11 in service, thank you to send all their own.

00:59

Copy, Italian one.

01:04

The Montgomery and post.

01:10

Do you, Trach 16,

01:12

responding?

01:13

Truck 16 responding?

01:18

Control 2, Medic 510 at hospital.

01:22

510 at the hospital.

01:26

You did dispatch, 1213, King Medic 114.

01:29

Location 4 by Dural Center on the 26th floor, near Drumstreet, cross-saclemental commercial for Code 3, Medicaid seizure.

01:36

Starnay 1.

01:41

14 in route.

01:44

Coffee.

01:49

Mission, engine, I?

01:54

Corrilius Walker and Innes.

01:57

Copy.

01:59

Unit dispatch engine 12, key, medic 103, location near Bernay, cross-a, unit 13, cross-a garden, side drive, and Dixie alley for Code 3 medical alarm.

02:09

Sparney 2.

02:14

The engine 51 is on scene, history story type 5 under investigation.

02:19

Hey 2, 3 on scene, near Ellis Street, Sacred Heart Cathedral High School, enough to show on our investigation.

02:28

Copy.

02:29

And a truck 3 battalion,

02:32

forage to be advised, you got a call advising that it's going to be a false alarm just during construction, just a heads-up.

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Near Ellis St, San Francisco, CA 94109

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