Hazardous material readings prompt evacuations at shopping center, Bucks County PA


Hazardous materials readings indicating possible gas or chemical presence were detected at a shopping center and the adjacent car dealership near PA-309 and Quakers Way in Richland Township. This led authorities to evacuate multiple buildings and close nearby streets to ensure public safety.
Audio|Source: Bucks County Fire North and OPs
07:6
Transcript:
00:00
You've got a steady-one deep reading of 4 to 800, you know, 14 minutes. Getting by a washback.
00:10
All right, do you have readings start evacuating that building? Command, you copy?
00:18
Now I'm taking care of a civilian smoking a cigarette in the rear of the building. What you got?
00:27
The truck canman is reporting readings in the service bay of Sioka.
00:32
I would assume it's going to be a floor drain.
00:36
Fentzis, man, welcome to the canal, get I'm out of here.
00:41
T.
00:43
Okay.
00:48
T. Okay. See, 37, Morg can you want your phone it up for you?
00:51
Yes, sir.
00:52
Okay. Okay. Okay. So,
00:55
make sure you just cut down all the air handlers.
00:58
It's possible.
00:59
You know, but the tap in 57? Yeah, 507 is in there, too.
01:03
Okay, keep it with the same address for using or is that a different building?
01:07
Have that a different building, see if the Chevy is the next building next to 50.
01:13
It will be a 309 address.
01:14
All right, we'll change the address and just upgrade us.
01:19
Okay.
01:21
We'll set up Quaker Town Command and Captain 18 will have operations.
01:30
I command the cabinet team. We're upgrading the assignment for Chevy.
01:34
You're going to now be operations.
01:37
And then the upgraded alarm is going to head to see if the Chevy then. We'll get that organized when they get here.
01:45
Hi, sounds good.
01:47
Just in 50 cents, we'll take care of the graduation of the Chevy deal at this time.
01:52
We're going to decide a AD corner.
02:00
If you're going to have to get a spotter in this alleyway, there's people in the back smoke and I just yelled at a third person. So if we need to evacuate buildings, let's start evacue back then.
02:08
It's going to be a hazard here real soon.
02:11
All right.
02:13
Driver of the store, driver the little glider, can you start evacuating the shopping center? Moving all out for a while.
02:19
Receive.
02:21
Capt 17 operations. The evacuation point for COPA is going to be on PA-309.
02:30
I received,
02:32
we only work with a $0.50 on that short crewed some time back over and started evacuating the shopping center,
02:40
the Latter Crudden Stay, wherever they found it, and we'll monitor that right now.
02:53
Cockerlock, 8781, Tension Tower 57.
02:56
855 Southwest and Lower, course, and Quaker's Way at Tiochekers-Way at Chewker-Savvy, assumes in the building.
03:05
Officer, two men, you did two stations of fire, police a while as well?
03:10
Okay, that's two stations of fire police.
03:15
Yeah, just to be a walk-all Chevy dealer or any incoming traffic and then also the shopping center.
03:21
Okay.
03:23
We're going to talk to me about it.
03:32
Okay.
03:33
We'll take an additional engine on the assignment and then we'll need two companies of fire police besides ourselves at PA-309 and Quaker's Way and 3.9 in the station to shut down 3.9.
03:45
The odors are out in the storm grains on the street.
03:48
Okay. Would you like the U.S. for this as well, Mr. Ska-Law?
03:52
Sure, why not?
03:58
Operations is SORO Officer.
04:00
It's Ward Officer.
04:06
So you want to bring your crew back over here with your meter and just double check with the UTI-i-i-i he's not that day and ain't yet. Appreciate.
04:18
This is for the six officer and off.
04:24
Getoff. Get off.
04:25
Pitchin.
04:30
I just hear where we have a dry line established from the Hydrant-256 ready to charge if needed.
04:38
Hi, receive. You're back to the uh... Autosop side.
04:43
Yeah, I'm in the wash right now with the same trip.
04:49
Hi, receive. I receive.
04:54
17 operations.
04:58
Operations
05:05
Pension 58 respondentagawaak, Eighty-seven eighty-one. Eighty-five stop looking goalwork, portioned breakers-way at Sioka-Chabby-Chievity, Tewon in a building.
05:15
Seoka building is confirmed evacuated.
05:18
The area that we're getting the readings is going to be the CE corner all side the chop.
05:25
They sent engine 56es crew back to the engine so they can man the handline if we need it.
05:30
All right. We're still working on you guys on this one here.
05:33
We'll start working on whatever to you when he's ready to do that.
05:36
We'll skip by and finder.
05:39
Ops, come in.
05:44
For the EGI, he's proven native in the strip mall area of our first origin.
05:49
We'll work our way back over to Chevy now with EGI. B.C.
05:55
Outspea Tower 57.
05:59
What else you have coming in?
06:04
Niger 58, Tower 57.
06:08
Upsteady Tower 57.
06:12
Tower 57, normally.
06:14
Okay.
06:20
Tire 57 is set up on side, I have the Chevy dealer, then the other roof, and just don't look like the A handrail's up there.
06:26
Okay, they have not yet called respondent.
06:29
All right, we see, too.
06:31
Looks pretty quick and finish, man.
06:33
Yeah, but.
06:35
Where would you like your email?
06:41
Mexican stage at Quakers way up there and I'm at the Richelotown Mall, the old mall,
06:46
across the street from the incident.
06:48
Okay.
06:54
507 with three.
06:56
Tower 57.
07:02
Utility 17 is responding with one.
07:05
Utility 17.
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Location mentioned:
PA-309 & Quakers Way, Richland Township, PA 18951
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