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28

Jun 2023

Last Updated: 28/06/2023
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Toaster and alarm clock cause false alarms for firefighters

by John Plummer

| 28 Jun, 2023
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Harrogate fire station

Firefighters in Harrogate responded to two unusual false alarms today.

At 8.46am, a crew from Harrogate responded to reports of a fire alarm sounding on Kings Road in the town.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service's incident report said:

"This was a false alarm caused by burnt toast."


Shortly afterwards, the Harrogate crew was summoned to The Spinney in Knaresborough at 10.01am after another fire alarm went off. The incident report said:

"This was a false alarm, where an alarm clock had been mistaken for a fire alarm."


It was the third strange false alarm in less than a day for the Harrogate firefighters, who responded to a house alarm going off at 5.04pm yesterday on Leeds Road.

Again, there was no fire — the cause this time was described "a faulty deaf alarm".



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