Gasoline odor leads to evacuation of multi-family building, Fort Collins CO
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a large multi-family building near W Prospect Rd where a hazardous gas leak was detected. Monitors showed low oxygen levels and elevated lower explosive limit readings, with a gasoline odor inside the building. Due to these conditions, the building was evacuated and mechanical ventilation was started for safety.
Audio|Source: Poudre Fire Authority and EMS
06:46
Transcript:
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Three's on scene you have command of a medium three-story multi-family. You guys are investigating.
00:11
Rescue 4. Service call. Aggie Village Family. near W Prospect Rd Apartment 28F.
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Map 31 King 1.
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Respond on TFA Fireground 2.
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Ladder 5, Charlie Medical, Banner Medical Group, 1113 Oak Ridge Drive, Map 34 Mary 2, respond on NetChannel 5.
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UCH 12,
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MVA[2],
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Ronald Reagan Avenue and McClellan Road, map 22, poll 3, respond on Wellington TAC 2.
01:00
TTO2 letter 5 is en route to assist you on this.
01:05
Toby, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for Mision 3.
01:13
Oh, Steve, go ahead.
01:16
We are inside the building right now and investigating. We're getting a drop in our oxygen levels on our monitor as well as some reading for LEL.
01:23
It definitely has an odor in the building.
01:28
REM-1, UCH208, medical alarm, the Remington-300 Remington, 300 Remington Street, Apartment 1101, Map 29, Lincoln 3, respond on Med Channel 5.
01:43
Yeah, do you want us to work on evacuation from in here?
01:47
If you perhaps keep an eye on that monitor, if you guys need to go on there, but we need to drop the building.
01:54
Clarify if I'm saying no, CRE.
02:00
I'm going to assume command if that's okay.
02:05
Abram.
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100 from command if you can reconfigure this to a hazmat[1] call.
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A-Ferman, 1538.
02:16
Should I need hazmat[1] units.
02:22
All right, ma'am.
02:24
Go ahead. Command battalion one.
02:27
Yes, ma'am. Can you contact large apparatus present,
02:34
presence on Lake Street here?
02:37
Hey, firm. And did you want us to greater alarm the has net response or do you have our CNS on scene?
02:46
No,
02:47
I'm going to need a greater alarm, but if you can just have Engine 10 and Hazmat 10 be on this channel please prior to upgrading.
02:58
I copy.
03:01
Engine 2. Engine 2.
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Engine 2. Engine 2. If you can take your full crew,
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rendezvous with Engine 3 and start on evacuation.
03:10
Monitor is inside.
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Air packs.
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To copy.
03:18
Okay,
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engine 10, we're monitoring on 4.
03:21
What do you need?
03:24
Edge 10, we came here for an interior gas leak call.
03:27
Parties got inside,
03:29
had an increase in LEL, a drop in 02, so currently we're dumped in the building, and I think our meters are going to be maxed out on that.
03:37
Do you have any other ideas? Do you have any monitoring equipment that we could possibly use?
03:45
We're just clearing from training. I think we finished our last revolution.
03:48
So we can head your way if you want. We can just have an engine 25 bring the hazmat[1] rig if we want to.
03:55
Is it just a natural gas league?
03:57
We don't know what it is. It came into the natural gas league, but it's not looking like that on our monitors when I drop it 02.
04:07
Okay, we'll head that way. What kind of facility are you in?
04:11
It's a large three-story multi-family.
04:16
Okay, and what we're reading is, LEL readings inside?
04:21
Engine 3, can you go car to car with engine 10 to give an update?
04:27
On the second floor, we were getting 19% O2 and up to 25 LEL.
04:36
Okay, 10% are cutoff for inside, 10% LEL.
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So we can start with ventilation.
04:41
Just let's get some mechanical ventilation going and try to ventilate that out best we can.
04:51
Engine 10, before we worry about that, we're going to start that ventilation, but I think we're also going to ensure we get everybody out of this building.
04:58
Is that appropriate?
05:01
That definitely, definitely evacuate first.
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Command for mention 3.
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Command.
05:10
We're wondering if you decide if you want to pull the fire alarm to get people out of here, if you want us to go door to door.
05:17
Would everything's going to be the best to get them out?
05:20
So if you want to dump the building, go ahead and use the fire alarm.
05:24
Maybe if you could make some companies and break this up in the Division 1, 2, and 3 so we can ensure that we have all floors. That would be helpful.
05:35
Okay, I can meet up with engine two. We can work on that.
05:42
Engine three, even two.
05:45
Engine two, go ahead.
05:51
We're on 4-1 right now. I'm on 4-2.
05:55
Engine 3 is on 4-2. We're going on evacuation.
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Agent 3.10.
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Go ahead.
06:08
I want to confirm your meter reading. You said you were getting 22-0% on 4-2?
06:15
25 in the stairwell leading up to floor 2.
06:19
Going deeper into floor 2, we're now getting 0, so it seems to be like the stairwell was the most concentrated swap.
06:27
Are you getting an odor in that stairwell at all?
06:33
It's an odor of gasoline, not natural gas.
06:37
I copy. Is there any CO2 source in that building, like a restaurant or a bar on the first floor?
06:45
I don't believe that there is.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
hazmat: Hazardous materials incident
[2]
MVA: Motor Vehicle Accident
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Location mentioned:
Near W Prospect Rd #22k, Fort Collins, CO 80526
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