Natural gas smell reported inside building without fire, Washington MO
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a reported slight natural gas smell inside a building in Washington, Missouri. They checked HVAC units, batteries, and rooftop equipment for any hazards but found no signs of fire, electrical issues, or burning odors. All systems were functional and no cause of the smell was determined during the inspection.
Audio|Source: Washington Fire - Main
03:32
Transcript:
00:00
Room from Division Charlie. It should be on the other side. If it sounds the evaporator elements, the control is going to be on the other side for the access to the Batman compressor.
00:16
The roof's clear.
00:22
Do you have any order in that unit at all?
00:27
We have a slight natural gas smell, but no electrical or burning smell.
00:33
Okay, have somebody to take a quick smell of the other couple and see if you have that burning odor in any of the other ones.
00:42
We've checked all the other ones, same thing, no smell of burning or electrical on any of them.
00:57
Command from Division Charlie, can we have each of the units call for cooling?
01:04
Clear. I'll clear. You clear on that?
01:08
Clear.
01:13
Roof from Division Charlie.
01:17
Go ahead.
01:19
I have management try to kick each of the units on and see if one of those units aren't running when they get those set.
01:27
Roop is just the four we see here from the ground or is there any more towards the front of the store of the Division Alpha site?
01:59
834 Hydra in the northeast corner of the building that's been flushed.
02:04
Washington's clear.
02:10
Interior 803 from Division Charlie.
02:13
Go ahead.
02:15
Can you somebody double check any chargers they have for for forklifts or pallet jacks, anything like that? Just check along the store roof see if there's anything we're missing simple on the ground.
02:26
It doesn't appear anything's really out of the ordinary roof so far.
02:36
Clearwood checking.
02:44
Division, Charlie, from Ruth.
02:47
Go ahead.
02:49
As far as we can tell, there's only four units to eighth and all four are fully functional at this time.
02:58
That's clear.
02:59
Is the smell getting any better or is it stay the same?
03:06
I'm going to be honest, I haven't noticed much on the inside as far as smell is concerned.
03:18
Yeah,
03:20
Command, we have all of those rooftop units print down right now to 65, so they should all be on.
03:26
The forklift that they have is an LP forklift, and we can't find any other batteries that they would have plugged in other than small hand tools.
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