Hazardous vapor detected in multi-family building stairwell, Fort Collins CO
Fire & ArsonFire crews detected high levels of flammable vapors and a gasoline odor in a stairwell of a large three-story multi-family building on West Lake Street. Oxygen levels were low. The building was evacuated and a fire alarm was activated as a precaution while hazardous materials resources responded.
Audio|Source: Poudre Fire Authority and EMS
08:49
Transcript:
00:00
All right, ma'am.
00:02
Go ahead. Command battalion one.
00:05
Yes, ma'am. Can you contact large apparatus present, presence on Lake Street here?
00:11
Hey, firm. And did you want us to greater alarm the has net response or do you have our CNS on scene?
00:24
No,
00:25
I'm going to need a greater alarm, but if you can just have Engine 10 and Hazmat[1] 10 be on this channel please prior to upgrading.
00:35
I copy.
00:38
Engine 2. Engine 2.
00:40
Engine 2. Engine 2. If you can take your full crew,
00:44
rendezvous with Engine 3 and start on evacuation.
00:48
Monitor is inside.
00:49
Air packs.
00:52
To copy.
00:56
Okay,
00:57
engine 10, we're monitoring on 4.
00:59
What do you need?
01:01
Edge 10, we came here for an interior gas leak call.
01:05
Parties got inside,
01:07
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.
01:15
Do you have any other ideas? Do you have any monitoring equipment that we could possibly use?
01:22
We're just clearing from training. I think we finished our last revolution.
01:26
So we can head your way if you want. We can just have an engine 25 bring the hazmat rig if we want to.
01:32
Is it just a natural gas league?
01:35
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.
01:45
Okay, we'll head that way. What kind of facility are you in?
01:49
It's a large three-story multi-family.
01:54
Okay, and what we're reading is, LEL readings inside?
01:59
Engine 3, can you go car to car with engine 10 to give an update?
02:05
On the second floor, we were getting 19% O2 and up to 25 LEL.
02:13
Okay, 10% are cutoff for inside, 10% LEL.
02:17
So we can start with ventilation.
02:19
Just let's get some mechanical ventilation going and try to ventilate that out best we can.
02:28
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.
02:36
Is that appropriate?
02:38
That definitely, definitely evacuate first.
02:43
Command for mention 3.
02:45
Command.
02:48
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.
02:55
Would everything's going to be the best to get them out?
02:58
So if you want to dump the building, go ahead and use the fire alarm.
03:01
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.
03:13
Okay, I can meet up with engine two. We can work on that.
03:19
Engine three, even two.
03:23
Engine two, go ahead.
03:29
We're on 4-1 right now. I'm on 4-2.
03:33
Engine 3 is on 4-2. We're going on evacuation.
03:40
Agent 3.10.
03:44
Go ahead.
03:45
I want to confirm your meter reading. You said you were getting 22-0% on 4-2?
03:53
25 in the stairwell leading up to floor 2.
03:57
Going deeper into floor 2, we're now getting 0, so it seems to be like the stairwell was the most concentrated swap.
04:04
Are you getting an odor in that stairwell at all?
04:10
It's an odor of gasoline, not natural gas.
04:15
I copy. Is there any CO2 source in that building, like a restaurant or a bar on the first floor?
04:22
I don't believe that there is.
04:26
Okay, we should probably be on air for that stairwell then.
04:30
If you're not getting in readings and the rest of the building while we evacuate,
04:34
don't need to be on air but in that stairwell for sure. And let's not put occupants in that stairwell while we're evacuating.
04:42
Okay, we will advise occupants to use the thief exit.
04:49
Command.
04:51
Command.
04:53
A self-assigned, but let's get the hazmat rig there, we'll need somebody to bring it.
04:59
Okay, do you guys want it? Do you guys need equipment off that?
05:03
Just not knowing what we have, I'd like to have it, just in case.
05:08
Okay, break 100 from Command. If you can have Has10, respond here, please.
05:13
It's not emergent.
05:15
Okay, sir.
05:18
Engine 3, command.
05:21
Go ahead.
05:24
just for accountability purposes,
05:26
could you tell me what crews we have on what floor?
05:34
Have Matt 10? Has Matt Incident. The Socialist Stadium Walk 914 West Lake, 914 West Lake Street, map 30 King 3. Respond on PSA Fireground 4.
05:50
Engine 2 is just on to floor 2.
05:55
Okay, I'm sorry, so can you tell me what?
05:59
100.
06:00
Engine 25.
06:04
Come on. Engine 2 was on 401. We cleared it.
06:11
No readings. We're on 4-2 now.
06:14
We have no change in our air monitor.
06:16
We're going to do a face-to-face with engine 3.
06:20
Okay,
06:21
if we know we have readings in there, they're important, but number one's life, so we can just make sure everybody's out of that building, that's our objective right now, is evacuation.
06:34
Man, we activated fire alarm.
06:39
Okay, 100, you're going to be getting a firelight call.
06:46
I copy.
06:48
Command.
06:53
I know we dispatch out of 10, but we're going to need a physical unit to get it because we're leaving from the training center.
07:00
I think 25 is told a little bit over here.
07:06
Do you want to go two or three?
07:11
Two is fine right now until we get an update. I'm just not doing evacuation right now.
07:16
Okay.
07:19
Engine 25, 100.
07:25
Engine 25, you can disregard. I was going to show your route to this call with Taz 10.
07:34
Engine 7, the battalion 1.
07:40
100 command.
07:43
Go ahead.
07:46
I see it now. I'll say 25 is going to bring our HAZMAT unit, is that correct?
07:53
A-Firm, just trying to confirm, engine 25 are you en route with HAZ10?
07:59
That's correct.
08:00
We ought to go for Engine 7.
08:04
Engine 7, can you bump into Tuesday area for coverage?
08:11
Let me copy, Tuesday area for coverage.
08:15
That's all right, with you.
08:18
A for our non-emergent. As soon as you bring the hazmat rig, you guys could probably pick up, I think just 10 units are going to need it.
08:27
Okay.
08:32
I'm wondering from command.
08:35
Go ahead.
08:38
If you have a minute, can you...
08:41
find a contact for this building like an RP to see if we can maybe figure out the source if they had worked on on the building or anything like that.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Hazmat: Hazardous materials incident
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Location mentioned:
Near W Lake St, Fort Collins, CO 80521
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