Fire Incidents: April 25 to April 30

Incident Reports by the Numbers
56 Total call for service
23 EMS calls excluding motor vehicle accidents
10 Malfunctioning or unintentional alarm activations
4 EMS calls with no duty/patient refusal
3 Medical EMS calls, MVA
2 Nonmedical public assistances
2 Well being checks
2 Motor vehicle accidents with basic life support
2 Mutual aid cover/standby
1 Public service assistance
1 Motor vehicle accident with no duty/no transport
1 Passenger vehicle fire
1 Brush brush/grass fire
1 Motor vehicle accident with no duty/transport
1 Prescribed fire
1 Smoke scare/odor
1 Wind storm/tornado/hurricane call

Fire Incident Reports

Wednesday, April 25

1:06 p.m. – Firefighters responded to Spring Street for an accidental alarm activation that occurred during refilling of the sprinkler system.

8:55 p.m. – Firefighters responded to a faulty alarm activation on Summit Road.

Thursday, April 26

8:15 a.m. – An alarm activation on Shire Way was possibly caused by earlier cooking in the area.

Friday, April 27

3:33 p.m. – A call came in reporting a tree down on a house on Marrett Road. Firefighters responded to the scene and found a large tree had damaged the roof and window, but the damage was structural and there were no hazards.

7:17 p.m. – Smoke from burnt popcorn set off an alarm at Emerson Gardens Road.

Saturday, April 28

3:31 p.m. – A cellular caller reported a tree smoldering of the bike path. Firefighters found the smoking tree and, according to the incident report, made the homeowner wet it down and told him not to burn.

8:24 p.m. – Firefighters responded to Route 128 and found a vehicle on fire in he breakdown lane. 

Sunday, April 29

3:26 p.m. – Firefighters responded to Mass Ave for a report of a smoking barrel outside Bertuccis and found no obvious signs of fire, but a few bystanders who said they’d put water on the smoking planter previously.

8:19 p.m. – Firefighters responded to White Pine Lane after a report of an electrical odor in the building, which was determined to be caused by a burned out light bulb.

9:53 p.m. – A faulty carbon monoxide detector called companies to Kendall Road.