False alarm sparks quick response at Wilkes-Barre nursing home, Wilkes Barre PA
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
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Transcript:
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Walsbury City Fire, 200, South Mead Street.
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At Mead Street, Skilled,
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commercial fire alarm pole station, 1604.
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122 engine to county.
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122 engine.
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Wern route.
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You're on the way, 1604.
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Bruce, let's get some traffic control.
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Got it, on the way.
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On the way.
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Any of six?
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F6. See responding all county city hop one.
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Ten, four sixteen zero five.
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To Plainfire Medical Assist, 172 Ridgewood Road, 86-year-old female unresponsive, labor, breathing,
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1606.
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County, engine one.
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Engine one.
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We're responding.
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Copy on the way, 16,06.
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County, engine three, priority, two.
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16,06. 126.
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We're on location.
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16-07 front towards Beaumont so you can wind the traffic in a pattern there.
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122 engine to Chief, can you repeat that?
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Pull it up by my car so you can direct traffic from Beaumont.
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We gotta get one lane of traffic going here.
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Denver.
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The engine one.
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Inge one.
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Engine one arriving on scene, four-story nursing home facility.
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We have activated alarm, we'll have command.
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Okay, 16, turn on.
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Okay, S. S.S.S.
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6. We're having on scene.
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I'll assume command on Ead Street.
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Tann for a 616 surname.
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Man from engine one.
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Command, go ahead.
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Command, resident pulls the alarm, no fire.
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You can refer in other companies.
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Copy.
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Command.
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All of the companies on the box at Mead Street, you can return to service.
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Location mentioned:
S Meade St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
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