Gas smell found from unlit restaurant burners at grocery, Portland OR
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a gas smell at a grocery store located near NE 33rd Ave. They found that unlit burners in the restaurant area caused the smell due to ventilation issues. No fire or hazardous gas was detected. The area was ventilated and crews waited for the gas company to confirm safety before employees returned to work.
Audio|Source: Portland Area Fire and Rescue
06:51
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 9 has command.
00:03
Engine 9 is command and investigating.
00:05
It's a one-story, ordinary, two-story grocery on the back.
00:11
Agent 1, if you want to just pick one of those hydrants, either on Burnside or Cooch, to spot on.
00:17
Truck 1, I'll have you come up and help investigate when you arrive.
00:24
Truck 1, copies of the rescue.
00:28
Joel and copper, take the hydrant, 28th in the kitchen.
00:34
Truck one, probably a parking lot area over on the Burnside side will be easiest for you. So maybe out on Burnside on the south side of the building.
00:49
C4 has arrived, C4 going to some command, engineering, join your crew in rescue.
00:56
Copy.
01:00
Command from Engine 9 Apparatus. I'm with some sort of building representative who does have keys for all the spaces. We're working on opening them up if we could get a few different crews in here with their monitors to take a look.
01:17
It's squad one right.
01:21
Yeah, squad one if you could come up and help investigate.
01:27
Copy that one. That's great. We're going to swing around to the Cooch Street side. Looks like the gas services are over there.
01:35
Copy that.
01:37
Engine 9B from Engine 9 Apparitis. If you could come to the corner, 40,
01:42
La Buguka, that's where it smells the strongest to me.
01:49
(number withheld) South East Coast Road out (number withheld).
01:56
Yeah, Squad 1, are you going to go ahead and check those meters and turn them off if necessary there?
02:03
Yeah, Squad 1, copy that. We just arrived it outside. We'll go check the meters and then help out with investigating inside.
02:15
Bravo 401,
02:17
Party 6 Bravo Assault, police are on scene, (number withheld), Southeast Division Street, Ops 1, Bravo 401, A party 6, Bravo Assault, Police are on scene,
02:28
(number withheld), Southeast Division Street, Office 1, (number withheld), South East Division Street, Office 1, 813.
02:35
Matt from truck 1.
02:37
Meters on the Alpha side, all appear to be operating normally.
02:44
Copy that.
02:49
Squad 1, if you're trying, you're not going out?
02:56
So Squad 1 was there traffic for us?
03:00
Naked if you just weren't going out, so you must have been bumping the radio this regard.
03:08
Managing 9. We got zero readings in the restaurant.
03:12
Here's normal operations.
03:14
There's a light smell in the area of the restaurant.
03:18
But I think we'll probably need to get Northwest Natural to just use their meters.
03:23
I can copy that. Well, as we're checking these units out, this is to make sure we have our meters out and see if we get a hit on anything.
03:33
And Command engine 9, we got an update from the manager that said when they came into the restaurant, they did have burners on with no pilot light. So that was probably the source. Seems like it's taken care of.
03:45
Recommend to recall.
03:49
Okay, copy that. So they confirmed that they did have the burners on without being lit. So it's probably just a ventilation issue at this point.
03:59
That's affirmative.
04:03
Dispatcher, man.
04:06
Go ahead.
04:08
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and put a recall in the incident.
04:10
We are going to keep OP6 for a little bit. We'll keep Engine 9 Squad 1 here working as we make sure we get things ventilated. We'll wait for the gas company to come to reaffirm.
04:20
And other than that, all other companies can return, but we will make OP6 without dispatcher.
04:27
Copy. This will be a recall of the gas major incident (number withheld) Northeast 28 Avenue at the 2-Sloom, or too soon.
04:35
We're going to keep engine 9 in Squad 1, waiting for the gas company. All of their companies are returning with no dispatcher, it's basically.
04:42
And command from Squad 1.
04:45
Normal readings,
04:47
gas meter on the Coot Street side.
04:49
No problem.
04:51
Yeah, I think we've redogged out the source of the problem, so now we'll just make sure we don't have any concentration or anything. I think we're looking good here.
05:19
Information on the recall, the gas major at (number withheld) northeast 28 Avenue,
05:24
keeping up 6 at CET 70.
05:30
In command from Squad 1,
05:33
is new seasons good to go, have their employees go back inside? They're asking if they can reenter new seasons, go back to work.
05:41
Yeah, I think so. I think we've got a good storyline here how this happened and it's vet and we aren't getting anything in our readings. So yeah, they go back in.
05:53
Copy that. Yeah, I concur.
05:55
Looks good.
05:57
Squad 1, you can return. Engine 9 will stand by and make contact with Northwest Natural when they arrive here and then we'll go from there.
06:10
Squad won't cover that, thanks.
06:16
(number withheld) southeast-12A Avenue, number (number withheld) ops 1-818.
06:20
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06:34
Mayn from dispatch.
06:39
I just called Northwest Natural just to confirm that they're en route. They've got an ETA of about five minutes for you guys.
06:47
I appreciate that.
06:48
They can touch base with Engine 9 when they get here and appreciate that. Thank you.
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Near NE 33rd Ave, Portland, OR 97211
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