Monday March, 25 2024 @ 15:04

Nature: Alarm Sounding

Location: 33584 Windswept Dr., The Peninsula, DE 19966

On Monday, March 25th, the Indian River Volunteer Fire Company was alerted for an alarm sounding incident on Windswept Drive in the Peninsula development off of Bay Farm Road.  It was reported that the ground floor smoke detectors were are going off with an additional 31 alarms sounding. 

Emergency response units from Indian River included Tower 80 80 and Incident Command 80 from the Oak Orchard facility and Engine #80-3 from the Long Neck facility as well as the Delaware State Fire Police.

Emergency response crew assignments included an initial 360 degree evaluation to identify location of utilities and external conditions, preliminary evaluation identified a general fault alarm with the system with 31 additional alarm notifications. 

It was identified that a telephone contractor was on location working on the system which resulted in the alarm notifications. The Sussex County Emergency Operations Center was alerted to place the location on officers call for the next 24 hours.

All units were permitted to return to their respective quarters.