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False alarm sparks quick response at Wilkes-Barre nursing homeWilkes Barre PA

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S Meade St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702

Fire units rushed to a nursing home on South Mead Street after a commercial fire alarm, but crews found no fire after a resident pulled the alarm. Units returned to service.

Audio|Source: Luzerne County Fire and EMS
03:23
Transcript:
00:00
Walsbury City Fire, 200, South Mead Street.
00:03
At Mead Street, Skilled,
00:07
commercial fire alarm pole station, 1604.
00:15
122 engine to county.
00:19
122 engine.
00:22
Wern route.
00:25
You're on the way, 1604.
00:31
Bruce, let's get some traffic control.
00:39
Got it, on the way.
00:40
On the way.
00:45
Any of six?
00:49
F6. See responding all county city hop one.
00:55
Ten, four sixteen zero five.
01:14
To Plainfire Medical Assist, 172 Ridgewood Road, 86-year-old female unresponsive, labor, breathing,
01:23
1606.
01:25
County, engine one.
01:29
Engine one.
01:31
We're responding.
01:33
Copy on the way, 16,06.
01:39
County, engine three, priority, two.
01:42
16,06. 126.
01:48
We're on location.
01:54
16-07 front towards Beaumont so you can wind the traffic in a pattern there.
02:05
122 engine to Chief, can you repeat that?
02:11
Pull it up by my car so you can direct traffic from Beaumont.
02:15
We gotta get one lane of traffic going here.
02:19
Denver.
02:24
The engine one.
02:27
Inge one.
02:31
Engine one arriving on scene, four-story nursing home facility.
02:36
We have activated alarm, we'll have command.
02:39
Okay, 16, turn on.
02:46
Okay, S. S.S.S.
02:47
6. We're having on scene.
02:48
I'll assume command on Ead Street.
02:52
Tann for a 616 surname.
02:59
Man from engine one.
03:04
Command, go ahead.
03:07
Command, resident pulls the alarm, no fire.
03:10
You can refer in other companies.
03:14
Copy.
03:16
Command.
03:18
All of the companies on the box at Mead Street, you can return to service.

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S Meade St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702

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