Hole found in furnace exhaust during CO check at home, Cumberland County PA
Fire & ArsonFire and EMS crews responded to a home near South York St for a possible carbon monoxide issue. They found zero CO levels in the basement but discovered a hole in the furnace exhaust pipe. The residents had turned off heat and water and went to hospital. No one showed symptoms of CO poisoning at the scene.
Audio|Source: Cumberland County Fire Ops
03:30
Transcript:
00:00
Command 2354s, we try to raise them, though the EMS you requested fire from looking, they might be tied up.
00:08
Okay, thanks.
00:16
Lieutenant 2 from command, I'm going to go back up to the church law, if you need me let me know.
00:25
Copy.
00:26
Currently has zero parts per million in the basement.
00:31
We've turned the thermostat up to get heat running,
00:36
but the permit doesn't appear to be running.
00:40
I am unable to locate a hot water heater. I think it might be part of the furnace.
00:44
I'm going to run hot water and see if we can get that to activate.
00:53
Okay.
00:58
Command 20
01:01
Water is turned off to the building.
01:05
Vernon has also been turned off.
01:13
Okay,
01:16
if we're getting zeroes, I'm happy with that. You guys can come out.
01:26
Command 23 from investigation.
01:31
The residents have churned off the heat and the water prior going to hospital.
01:39
In examining the furnace exhaust pipe, we have found a hole in the furnace exhaust.
01:45
You want to come in and take a picture of this?
01:53
Okay.
01:57
Combrun, Intermediate 283, and off to work transporting to West York.
02:03
Okay, intermediate 283.
02:05
Conversal Chief 223 on this talk for reference to the incident on South York Street up around.
02:13
Okay, we're placing fire available with that. We're transporting now fire and go back in service when they're ready.
02:24
Okay, I'm talking to you about the CO problem that you had passed fire to check out.
02:30
And up around your last call, 1943 South York.
02:40
TDS for that EMS did not.
02:43
So the only story I can give you on that is that for a past week and a half the patient we transferred from there said that there was a heavy odor of mold unaware if it was black mold or what but
02:58
yeah there was like an open container gas and then do a recent construction on plumbing.
03:09
2.23 are you direct?
03:13
Yeah, all I need to know is that the patient had CO symptoms before they transferred to hospital.
03:21
Negative on CO symptoms, so I just back pain and he feels a little shorter breath when he had a history of asthma.
03:29
Okay.
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Location mentioned:
S York St, Pennsylvania 17055
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