Gas line damaged by shovel causes leak on Cleveland Ave, Charlotte NC
Fire & ArsonA gas line was accidentally struck with a shovel near Cleveland Avenue, causing a natural gas leak. Fire units responded quickly and are investigating to expose and contain the leak. Residents in the area have been advised to evacuate as a safety precaution.
Audio|Source: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Fire
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Transcript:
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Responding near Cleveland Avenue, callers advising they hit a gas line with a shovel, unknown-sized line.
00:07
It'll be under dirt.
00:12
The time's recourse.
00:19
Lighter for long.
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Lighter for, go ahead. Lighter for, go ahead.
00:25
All of our tracking,
00:27
we're all the way up in 11 there and looks like ladder 2 is in their area.
00:32
That's permanent. We're adding ladder 2 now.
00:36
You can cancel.
00:42
Engine 2 is on scene, investigating.
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Engine 2 will have command.
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Engine 2 on scene with command.
00:52
Near Cleveland Avenue on F.
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Fox Trot. Ladder 2, natural gas leak.
00:58
Near Cleveland Avenue on F.
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Fox Trot.
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Battalion 2.
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Engines,
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36, 27, and 22, and Power 18, Electro, Instructure, 14-14 springless drive on B, Bravo.
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Italian 2, engines, 36, 27, and 22, and Tower 18, Electrogo Instructure, 14-14 springless drive on B, Bravo.
01:41
Oh, I hit command.
01:46
We've got a residential-sized line that's been hit.
01:49
We're coming into a composing plant now. You notify Piedmont.
01:53
Ten, four, on the phone with them now.
02:00
He said his tenant texted and said that the outlets were sparking and arcing and then the lights went out,
02:08
smoke in the home,
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or at least an odor of smoke.
02:13
He did advise her to step outside and he is going to get an electrician out there,
02:18
but he is not on fame.
02:19
He got a hydrant on spring mist and Thatcher.
02:27
Command the Ladder 2.
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Go ahead.
02:34
If you haven't committed yet, if you want to come in off, Rensselaer and block the road down there.
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10-4[1], we're coming up to summit.
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We'll be there in just a minute.
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61 T-Met.
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601.
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For campus police,
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patients,
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it's apparently in 202 D-Rose.
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Another construction right now, we just try to figure out how to get in there.
03:12
Edge 22 is on scene 14 14 spring miss drop.
03:17
Two-story residential, nothing showing 22 escrow.
03:21
Edge 22 on 2, command.
03:28
8.207 go on scene. Instead of, how are you hired them?
03:35
And the ladder two.
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Go ahead.
03:43
If you guys could bring some shovels and manpower, we're still working to expose this.
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Engine 16, fire alarm, hayloft circle.
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Engine 16, fire alarm, hayloft circle.
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A new alarm.
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Go ahead, command.
04:21
You just bachelor light hazmat.
04:23
Looks like this line's actually going to be two inch plastic.
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104. Light hazmat.
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Residents just bandbinding position.
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All I'm this man. I apologize.
04:43
I was on 911. Can you repeat that last traffic?
04:46
You're good. I was just telling everybody what I was doing.
04:49
That's good for sir.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received and understood.
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Location mentioned:
Near Cleveland Ave, Charlotte, NC 28203
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