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False fire alarm triggers emergency response at Tacoma hospital, Tacoma WA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/26/2025 06:48 PM

M.L.K. Jr Way, Tacoma, WA 98405

Fire units rushed to Tacoma General Hospital with an automatic commercial fire alarm causing concern, only to find no fire and clear the scene promptly.

Audio|Source: Tacoma Fire

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Transcript:

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Engine 1, Engine 9, Ladder 1, and Battalion 1, Channel A3, automatic commercial fire alarm, Tacoma General Hospital, near Martin Luther King Jr.

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Engine 1, Engine 9, Ladder 1, and Battalion 1, Channel A3, automatic commercial fire alarm, Tacoma General Hospital, near Martin Luther King Jr.

00:24

Way, time 1848.

00:30

Home manager-on-com machine of a 200 by 600 multi-story medical facility.

00:40

We have a welcome chilling, not evacuated, multi-investigator.

00:45

Call me, Engine 1.10, 500,

00:48

600, medical facility,

00:51

Topic showing, being met by security,

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and now all units, so I can change.

00:58

Engine 1, Tacoma, your size-up was on channel A2, move your size up to channel A3.

01:07

Okay, very.

01:12

Hello, Nogne.

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Onsen, the G-1-1-5-3-Aid.

01:17

False Surrey,

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Medical facility, that's chilling, and the flight security.

01:22

And all units, yeah, by our level.

01:23

And you want, on-scene, command after 1853.

01:32

Thank you, Juan, I'll give you a 3-60.

01:34

I'll give you a 360.

01:41

Come in, Jimine, there is no fire issue.

01:44

With the blown to DMV, all units can go available.

01:49

Receive no fire issue.

01:50

All units available at 1855.

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M.L.K. Jr Way, Tacoma, WA 98405

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