Natural gas odor reported at apartment complex, Rancho Cordova CA
Fire & ArsonMultiple residents reported a natural gas odor at several apartment buildings near Mills Tower Dr and Mills Park Dr. Emergency crews responded, secured gas lines to buildings four, five, and six, and began evacuations on the Charlie side. Gas monitors inside units found no elevated gas levels. The odor was strongest about 30 minutes prior and was dissipating during the response. Investigations continued to determine the source, with suspicion of a possible systemic or external issue.
Audio|Source: Sacramento Regional Fire and EMS
07:36
Transcript:
00:00
A 65 engineer, are you securing gas to the building that you're currently at?
00:10
Yeah, shut it.
00:13
Yeah, I'm shutting down building four right now.
00:19
Copy, command, that should be gas secured to building four, five, and six, and we'll work on getting more evacuations off the Charlie side of this.
00:30
Kappa.
00:35
All Walnut Grove units, they were.
00:39
All Walnut Grove units are. All one of gross units are.
00:43
And all units, if you have civilians standing around outside these buildings, I want to back.
00:51
Either outside the rod-iron fence and across the street or evacuated back to the other side of the parking lot on the Charlie side.
01:01
All right yes, Fax, engine 61.
01:04
Okay,
01:05
patch.
01:09
Is PG&E[1] responding?
01:17
That's negative, we can get them started.
01:22
For two as well.
01:27
I haven't had any reports of voters from building to you. If you want to get a lap there and see if anybody's smelling anything or if you've got anything, then yes, but short of anything detected, then I'd say, no, we can hold with buildings four and six at this point.
01:45
All right, copy. I'll look at the meters and then talk to the folks that are outside right now. Copy.
01:58
601 there was additional RF stating there was an odor out outside of one zero four nine nine miltower sixty one copy go ahead that way
02:20
The odor all the way down to the west,
02:24
however,
02:25
Unit 81, which is the Charlie side,
02:28
that first building on the east, is reporting an odor in their apartment as well.
02:33
On my way to check it out and continue evacuations on the Charlie side.
02:36
Go.
02:43
66, truck 65.
02:46
Do you have our firefighter with you and are you concentrating on apartment 74 for a heavy odor?
03:07
And dispatch from El Mercado Command[2], do you have other gas leaks detected in the area?
03:19
Dr. Cardo Command[2],
03:21
that's formative on Mills Tower Drive and Mills Park Drive.
03:31
Are there multiple reports over there? Is that just one address again?
03:41
Multiple different RP
03:45
Copy
03:49
Engine 6-1 Captain Engine 611 Carver Engine 61 Captain
03:56
I'm at Glenby and Mill Station I've got multiple bystanders reporting over of gas in both directions for my position
04:12
6-1 capping copies where I'll skate reports closer to the station as well.
04:24
Have you made your weight interior on anything? Are you getting any kind of readings at all?
04:44
concentrated on apartment 74 and I've got 62 now so we'll send them over to that main source building. They have a meter two.
04:56
All right, and all you just be advised, sounds like 61 is also working odor of gas,
05:03
at Mills Tower and Mills Park,
05:06
which is pretty much due north of here, and they've got multiple reports up in that area as well all the way to their station. So we could have had something transient through the area or, I don't know, something to do with the system, but if we're not detecting anything on the interior, then we'll start scanning. on this back.
05:30
Command[2] under 6-6.
05:33
Go ahead.
05:35
I tied in with the fireman off truck six five, e-checked unit 73, 74,
05:45
80,
05:46
and 53 with no indication of the change on the air monitor, all units that reported the odor.
06:04
I just had another walk-up report from a resident who said he's got an odor of gas inside his residence over on Rockingham so I'm starting to think that we've got either a systemic issue here or something outside of these apartments.
06:19
So with 66's last update,
06:24
62,
06:25
can I confirm with you guys that you have no odor or anything in this building or number four?
06:32
We've been walking the exterior. We haven't had any changes in oxygen or LELs or CO.
06:42
Okay, if you have any open apartments we can check just interior to get some, make sure we have no readings in there, that'd be helpful.
06:51
66 and truck 65 same traffic. If you guys can just confirm we have nothing else in building 6,
06:57
then we'll start breaking this down.
07:02
6-6 copies.
07:04
Most of the residents are reporting the odor was strongest with approximately 30 minutes ago and that it's dissipating now.
07:13
And I've gotten nothing in any of the units I've entered in the last 5 to 10 minutes.
07:22
Copy.
07:26
Same from Chuck 6.5.
07:28
Engine 6-6.
07:30
Have you guys been inside 85, 868 or 88 yet on Building 6?
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
PG&E: Pacific Gas and Electric (utility provider)
[2]
Command: Incident Command managing the incident
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Location mentioned:
Mills Tower Dr & Mills Park Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
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