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Chemical exposure and gas odor found on a building roofMontgomery County PA

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Hatfield Township, PA

Firefighters discovered containers of gasoline and an unknown orange chemical on a building roof in Hatfield Township. A strong natural gas odor was detected, and at least one person suffered a chemical burn. Multiple people were exposed to the orange substance, leading to gross decontamination efforts. Gas lines in the area may be affected, and the situation is being monitored closely.

Audio|Source: Montgomery County Fire and EMS East, Bucks Fire/EMS West
04:12
Transcript:
00:00
There has been some sort of contractor up on the roof at some point.
00:03
There's some containers of gasoline on the roof.
00:10
Awesome.
00:14
There's a container of scene cleaner, I got 0.3 natural gas LAL.
00:27
1015 to 15 command.
00:30
Go ahead.
00:35
Can you get with the 3804 unit or have someone get with them? They want that person to go to decon, too. Apparently, all these people have whatever this orange material is. They were all covered in it.
00:48
Okay. We'll start gross deconing.
00:53
I just sent you a picture.
00:59
Go to check with them.
01:04
You want me to fire up Engine 95? Was it a booster line?
01:09
Yeah, we'll just gross D-Con.
01:13
Hi.
01:14
Ingen-95, work your way around to the other side here near Latter 15, and we're going to gross decon these days.
01:22
Steve. Thank you.
01:32
15 command of Montgomery and House 5, are you monitoring?
01:38
That affirmative.
01:41
If you have a hazmat officer, the on call officer, could be a call on my cell phone.
01:48
5215.
01:53
Sorry, five, you can make a way back to the main. That's all you have on the roof for now.
02:01
Where about did you guys find is that temple in the roof?
02:20
RadioIC call communications, Chief Eighty-1 from the OIC call communication.
02:24
Again, what do these guys down?
02:30
Yeah.
02:33
A chemical used in the roofing process.
02:37
Okay.
02:43
981 is giving you a call.
02:54
G15 from FN 39.
02:57
Go ahead, go ahead.
03:00
Yeah, Sarkito out here. I'm getting like a strong odor of natural gas up here, so something's going to have to get secure here.
03:06
They were definitely doing more to just roof work up here.
03:09
But I'm not seeing anything where you guys see that orange stuff coming out of ceiling.
03:14
Matt, look around because as you know, it's a roof, it could be running from somewhere else.
03:19
And that's where we're backtracking now, but there's definitely something going on with the gas lines up there. Because the meters ticking and you can smell the natural gas.
03:29
All right, whatever this stuff was, it caused that guy to have like a first degree burn.
03:36
All right.
03:42
That's 5-7-7-2-2214 Berlin Road, Halk-Noradian Drive, and Stratis-Tam Town Township of January, 22 in-2-2-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-1.
03:56
That area where you guys are at, or were they in a different part of the building there?
04:04
Right, they were in an area we were just at.
04:10
for Alpha Delta.

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