Chemical odor detected but no hazardous gas found, Kansas City MO
Fire & ArsonFire and EMS units responded to an apartment near North Cosby Ave for a reported fall. They detected a chemical odor coming from a mechanical room at the rear of the building near a bakery, but no hazardous gas or fire was found after thorough investigation.
Audio|Source: Kansas City Fire
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Transcript:
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META 4, meet your pumper on scene, near North Cosby Ave, apartment 385,
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now in a fall, 83.
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Medic 4, meet Pumper 4 on scene, near North Cosby Ave,
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apartment 385, now in a fall, A3[1].
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38th, 103.
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Okay, Tien, are you staged in the house? Carvint O3.
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Yeah, you can go show a stage.
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That's one o three. 38 trying to reach. Copy got you staged, thank you.
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Yeah, they're not getting through.
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We were detecting some kind of odor at the rear of the building. It didn't smell like natural gas. It smelled more chemical.
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Coming out of the exhaust fan, it'd be to the rear of the structure behind, I believe where the bakery is, where they all flowed products.
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That's just see.
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I'll see if I can't face-to-face 30 at your truck four.
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Robert, can you repeat that last traffic car, 103?
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Yeah, just bad. Just mineral three. I have my DSO,
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in round and side, they're going to be face-to-face with companies.
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Match to see.
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Pick 18 PDs on your scene.
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Meg 18, copies.
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L.S. 528 are you on scene?
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Medic 5.06 is at hospital, and we're going to need to be out of service by L.
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Medic 5.06 at hospital.
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Pacing contact.
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Copy, show you have a contact.
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Dee, do you want me to put you out when you guys are done inside?
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Just go ahead and put us out now.
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Master Steve, go and put you guys out, DECON.
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Thank you. No problem.
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This is one for.
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Four?
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What eight ones are we getting?
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You're getting medic for, they mark themselves unseen.
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One hundred three.
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One of three, this is safety.
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One of three, go ahead.
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We've made our way through the whole building into this mechanical room back here.
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We're not getting any readings. We're making our way back around the front.
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Okay, did you locate where the odor we were catching was coming from?
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Yes, it was a mechanical room,
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and we had got no readings of any kind back there.
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All right, so it's not registered anything,
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any of the hazards.
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No natural gas, we can probably cancel Spire Dispatch.
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Go ahead and we'll see if we can't locate where that could be possibly refrigerant, you think?
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Yeah, we didn't.
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All right, copy that.
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We'll see if we can't, see if,
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go backwards from that vent from the outside, see if we can't figure out if it's not refrigerant or something.
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In Colorado 3, dispatch copies to make,
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copies direct. You still want us to update Spire?
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Yeah, you can update that. I can cancel them for now. I don't believe this is going to be a natural gas.
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Yeah, Spire doesn't cancel, but we'll definitely update them about the zero readings.
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Yeah, I copy that. Thank you.
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Safe is 103.
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If you guys can't locate it, you don't see any,
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don't have any more odor where that is,
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like we've done about everything we can here.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
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A3: Low-priority, alpha-level medical response or assigned radio channel/talkgroup A3.
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Location mentioned:
Near N Cosby Ave, Kansas City, MO 64151
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