Gas line struck during boring causes leak and evacuations, Aurora CO
Fire & ArsonA gas line was hit by a boring operation in the front yard near Nassau Drive, causing a leak. This resulted in evacuations and monitoring of nearby homes for safety.
Audio|Source: Aurora Fire
07:10
Transcript:
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If you can bring your crew and your monitoring equipment up, I need you to start near Nassau Dr and work
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just that's near home addresses and evacuate and monitor inside those homes.
00:30
It looks like... And just give you update.
00:34
They started a boring operation right there where they hit.
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So we don't have to trace anything back.
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Copy that, then we'll just monitor this string of homes along where they started the boring operation just to verify.
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Okay. Okay.
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Talk this one.
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Increband from engine 10.
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The crew thinks it's a high pressure 2 inch.
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Copy that.
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We just need to verify that no gas is seeping out under the ground as long as it's exiting and we'll just monitor around the hole and verify no LEL in the area.
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One of a second, copy post.
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1331.
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Dispatch command.
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Figgs is starting in one direction, moving down, evacuating homes and monitoring. And J10 is working in the other direction, monitoring and evacuating homes.
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The fire homes.
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in opposite directions to monitor and evacuate at 1632.
02:00
No one. Respondommergent to the meter road analysis near South Potomac Street for a sick case. Go on track. Do you, MS6? Thank you.
02:15
Thank you. Okay.
02:18
That's 36.
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Check one time clear to recusal.
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So.
02:32
Okay, I'm sorry.
02:34
Two,
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command.
02:42
Just to give you an update. It sounds like this is a two-inch line in the front yard near Nassau Dr when you guys get on C and all the sign you have my group and you can evaluate if there's any mitigation you can do.
02:59
So after that, I'm handed in Chambers.
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Latter 5.
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Can you show a ladder 5 on a service for training to time once the word?
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Latter 5, I copy in 1634.
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Female conscious breathing.
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Looks like she is not alert.
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She is oriented.
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And command from fire to fetch.
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Go ahead for command.
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Excel did advise of about a 30-minute ETA and that was about 10 minutes ago.
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And copies, thank you. 4, 1634.
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South 5-5 takes up at 1635.
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Ingen, it's just on a behavioral...
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Let me add some lighter, too.
04:11
Yeah,
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sorry, we were going to traffic right there. Can you may run down one more time exactly where we're going on what you got?
04:19
Your best access is probably going to be off the Nassau drive.
04:24
Currently we have a 2-inch gas main that was hit by a boring operation in the front yard near Nassau Dr. Sounds like it's a 2-inch line.
04:35
Currently we're working on monitoring, sign the homes, and doing any evacuation necessary.
04:45
Just confirm it, you said Masselod Drive was our best access up there to the north of the site.
04:51
Confirmative, and if you guys could utilize your apparatus to block any entry in there, that would be helpful. Thank you.
04:58
Thank you much.
05:02
Command from Fired as much.
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Go ahead for command.
05:07
We have another caller. I'm going to add the address to the note that she is coming to the gas leak is coming from her house and she's showing on Nassau Drive, maybe like 10 houses east of you guys.
05:20
She wants her house checked as well.
05:24
I'm pretty sure we have a large gas cloud going up and out. You'll probably get several callers on this.
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If you would like to send me a newt, I'll have Cruz Gover and verify her home.
05:43
There's some violence with this meeting.
05:52
106 negative.
05:53
The active shooter was selected in error and there's no way to delete it from the notes of the call. I apologize for that.
05:59
So the 20-year-old who is having an anxiety attack,
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he requested an ambulance to take him to the hospital.
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NG6 and Maticon 10 at 1637.
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From engine 10.
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Go ahead and engine 10.
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Yeah,
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we've checked 19558 and 19508.
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We have zero readings in it.
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One nine five zero eight, they're going to get their dogs and they're going to evacuate.
06:51
Copy that, I believe ladder eight,
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or ladder six is verified to the south and all those addresses has been evacuated and zero readings inside the homes.
07:05
Yeah, we're going to work our way west on Nassau Drive right now.
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Location mentioned:
E Nassau Dr, Aurora, CO 80013
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