Fire Alarm at College Village

Posted by William Buckley on September 28, 2009 - 8:38pm
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Town of Batavia FD is on scene at College Village building G (Spruce Hall) for a fire alarm. Response appears to be Rescue, Heavy Rescue, and at least one Chief. The cause of the alarm is not known to me at this time. More info when available.

Update (9:50 PM): This may end up being a non-story as they've already left. Response was Rescue 20, Rescue 24 and appeared to also include two chiefs. The dual-Rescue response has been fairly unusual in the past and that combined with everything arriving in a group led me to believe there might be something confirmed active, but appears to have simply been for the lighting abilities of those rigs. I don't have access to a scanner, so until I hear details from someone all I know is that the FD has been called.

Posted by Bruce Ross on September 28, 2009 - 10:13pm
Not sure as to why rescue 20 went but rescue 24 is actually a pumper rescue so it does have a pump and water on board. call was probably another famous fire alarm for burnt food.
Posted by Robert Hunt on September 28, 2009 - 10:25pm
Bruce is correct 24 is actually a rescue engine which carries 1000 gallons of water and both class A & B foam. Very minimum response to any call to College Village will get both a rescue and an engine unless cancelled by an officer on location.
Posted by William Buckley on September 29, 2009 - 8:22am
Thanks for filling in the blanks on that. I was trying to go through too much information at once (with all the weather alerts switching around at about the same time) and didn't have a chance to look up details via the TBFD site. I was well aware that an engine was standard response, but didn't really know much beyond that. I guess I'm just so used to all the false pulls and cooking mishaps being responded to solely by a chief that it seemed unusual.

On that note Chief Hunt, thank you for all that you and your department members have done despite the shenanigans endured from many of my fellow students over the past few years. I know it's generally considered a duty, but in my eyes TBFD has gone above and beyond it's call.
Posted by Chris Olin on September 29, 2009 - 9:08am
Shenanigans. Heh.

I remember my first and only year on CV like it was yesterday. 49 false fire alarms in the first semester alone.

I second Bill's praise towards the TBFD. Being woken up at 2am to respond to a non-existent fire because some numbskull went and pulled one of the fire alarms is cruel and unusual punishment. Even more so when the residents are downright nasty to you just for being there.

What you guys do doesn't go by unnoticed and is appreciated.