Gas Smell Reported in School Classroom Prompts Evacuation, Fort Lauderdale FL
Fire & ArsonA gas smell was reported inside a classroom at a school located near Northeast 4th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Investigators checked the culinary area below the classroom which stored four large propane tanks but found no gas smell there. Windows above the classroom were closed, so the source was likely inside the classroom on the second floor. School officials began evacuating the building as a safety precaution while they continued investigating the source of the gas odor.
Audio|Source: Broward County Fire/Rescue Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Instruction, nothing showing, alarm sounding,
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we'll be investigating.
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Engine 6Catby, 951.
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Up tonight we're arrival.
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We've got an initial smell of a classroom that's been the area.
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There's a station underneath.
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You got the smell of gas in the classroom.
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You were cut out after that.
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It's been reported that in the classroom in question, how they're cooking air and they've been cooking all day.
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I'll advise.
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I'm copy. What's out of 46 copy?
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I'll have to do something.
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Thank you very much.
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Okay, Connie. Second, a 69-year-old muscle in breathing, causing a person have very bad vaccine.
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No. 506.
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1.05.
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Respond for a sick person at near North 208th Avenue, 953.
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Yes, 7103.
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Do you have applied for you here to traffic?
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I have a copy.
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Tiny 7.
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Hollywood's requesting a mutual aid rescue for near North 20th Avenue.
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That's going to be zone 5, stop strike.
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Maybe something else.
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It could be a 785-year-old male.
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He is breathing, however he is not conscious.
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Very low blood pressure.
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9.54.
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Kathy.
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Okay.
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Okay. I'm sorry.
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Okay. Okay.
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Rescue 27, I'll need you to respond to late for Hollywood.
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Respond to near North 20th Avenue.
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83-year-old men.
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I'm not conscious.
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They do have me 105.
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I'll call as well 955.
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The 297, that's going to be quarter station 90. Are they available?
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Actually, I was just notified to cancel.
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They don't need us any longer.
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Thank you. Copy.
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Thank you. Rescue 27,
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you are available.
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Very about you.
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955.
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Is my station 18, out of service for training?
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Copy that. Station 18, I was training 925.
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I don't know.
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I can't visit to the practice school.
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I'm happy.
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Had that 17 Engine 23 Battalion 17.
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We find near Northeast 4th Avenue,
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near Northeast 4th Avenue.
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You're going to be a second alarm tone for Fort Lauderdale at Fort Lauderdale High School.
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And they're working it on Channel 1,
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National 1,
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957.
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Go ahead.
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See if you can confirm with the pilot lights if we can isolate.
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You know, if we can find that it is confirmed the pilot light, otherwise let us try and search it anyway.
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We'll be there for it.
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Alright, here's what I got. We, so directly underneath the classroom in question, is a cooking area, it's a culinary area. There's no smell of any gas in that area.
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We went outside.
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There's three large, or excuse me, four large propane tanks,
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but the windows above where the classroom is all closed, so I don't think the issue's out here.
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I'm thinking it's got to be something inside, and it's isolated to that second floor in that classroom.
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All right, is there anybody there, maintenance for school officials that know the direction of piping or any kind of plans so we know how it's that?
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All right, I do have security here. He let us downstairs, showed us the pipe that runs up in that classroom, but we've got nothing coming from there, and he's going to get you some... He's already right now working on getting some plans. So I'm going to go back up to that classroom, and I'll wait for you there.
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All right, copy that one there about this.
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9-4-6, I'm arrival.
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246, I can't take command from you.
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I've also started evacuation of this building.
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I'm going to ask about that.
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Near NE 4th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305
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