Gas leak caused by excavation hits residential line, Colorado Springs CO
Medical EmergencyFire crews responded to a natural gas leak caused by a backhoe striking a residential gas line near Babette Heights and Wheeler Avenue. Hazmat teams found no dangerous gas levels inside nearby buildings including the gymnasium. One patient was transported to a children's hospital for treatment. The damaged gas line was successfully clamped, resolving the incident.
Audio|Source: Colorado Springs Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Delta 15 S6 gas leak assignment.
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Delta 15, engine 5, Tower 1, Babette Heights, and Wheeler Avenue for a natural gas leak.
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Echo 7, Engine 1 at DeNus Hall, 920 North Cascade Avenue, automatic alarm sounding.
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Engine 1, respondent, 857.
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Patient five on six.
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Tower one's on six as well.
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Okay.
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Go for Med Group.
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One confirmed patients being transport to children.
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Copy one confirmed transport to children.
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Hi everyone, receive.
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Dispatch command.
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Can you give you a timestamp? I just face-to-face with hazmat. We've got zero readings on the south building, which is going to be the gymnasium.
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Zero readings house south building ninja one.
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PII is on scene.
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We do have a backhoe here that did catch the residential line.
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This will be put that command if I will have command.
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However one, we're going to work on doing that to it.
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Copy that, too.
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Command, Engine 5, Paramedic.
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We've exposed the line and we're clamping it right now.
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Copy that.
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Line clamped.
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Copy 9.05. Copy that line clip.
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Dispass from commands. We can terminate command,
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we can release Command 6,
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and you can release Tower 1.
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Copy. And terminated, 905. Command 6, clear.
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Location mentioned:
Wheeler Ave & Babette Hts, Colorado Springs, CO 80904
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