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Odor reported in residential building likely from furnace, Allentown PA

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E Cumberland St, Allentown, PA 18103

Fire units responded to a residential building near East Cumberland Street after a report of an indoor odor that might be a gas leak. Crews could not access the building, and the resident was returning from the hospital. The odor was likely caused by the furnace being turned on and not turned off.

Audio|Source: Lehigh County Fire and Northampton County Fire Tac-5
03:15
Transcript:
00:00
11th engine 9 in truck suit 316 east cumberland street unit a cross street of south carlisleon's office street turning side o'clock i'm 99
00:21
Tom, that dispatch was very low.
00:23
Can you repeat the dispatch?
00:28
On the cross street for an inside odor.
00:38
And what units are going?
00:42
C-43 engine 14, 11, 9 and truck still.
00:50
16 East Cumberland Street.
00:52
Front inside odor.
00:58
Support Brees 9.
01:05
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01:26
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01:29
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01:45
14 is on the scene, two-story, residential, nothing's showing.
01:49
14, I'll have Cameron like the man.
01:55
30 South Franklin Street for inside hazard.
02:03
Tom 14A.
02:06
Six unit A is an apple.
02:13
Home?
02:14
Yeah,
02:19
we don't have access to the building.
02:20
No one's home.
02:21
Do you know what their ETA is?
02:24
(name withheld) was on her way back from the hospital.
02:31
Copy.
02:40
Two minutes.
02:46
A woman on her ring doorbell, she just left the hospital now, she'll be here in about 10 minutes.
02:53
Reporting an odor,
02:55
some sort of a gas leak, and people have been here all week looking into it.
03:01
I copy, we just got an additional on the NDP that they did turn the furnace on,
03:08
but they haven't shut it off.
03:11
Just a heads up.
03:15
Copy.

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E Cumberland St, Allentown, PA 18103

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