Gasoline-like odor found in unoccupied Buffalo apartment, Buffalo NY
Fire & ArsonFire units responded to an unoccupied apartment near Franklin St in Buffalo after a report of a gasoline-like odor. Investigators found a smell similar to gasoline but possibly from paint thinner or nail polish remover. No fire, gas leak, or source of the odor was detected, and no residents were present.
Audio|Source: Buffalo Fire
06:32
Transcript:
00:00
Chief, there's a knocktruck there, hamburger and model was committed at Department 813.
00:04
Caller said she thought it smelled like gasoline from a car.
00:14
This is at this engine 36.
00:16
Can you send that to our cat? We'll respond.
00:30
This match 4-3, 8 stories are resistant investigating.
00:34
Unoccupied structure, not evacuated, no ring and alarms.
00:37
No ringing alarms.
00:38
Each story,
00:40
residential, you're investigating.
00:42
A 3-6-push call are you responding to.
00:48
This past 36, 33, you can hold up, 33 you can hold up, 33 you can hold up, 33 is responding.
01:03
Ingen, 33, send service.
01:07
33 on. 3.3-0.
01:14
6. 6 is 3-7.
01:16
It's a 3-7.
01:18
It's a 3-up.
01:26
Is thatch off 11?
01:27
F.
01:29
11, go.
01:33
I'm in service from Dearborn.
01:36
Engine 19 is going to hold the scene for a national grid.
01:40
I'm going to respond over the 31's call.
01:42
What's that address?
01:44
near Springer.
01:53
Copy, thank you.
01:54
31, F-Eleven.
01:58
This is 31.
02:01
On my way, going cross down.
02:10
Copy that.
02:13
4-3-Latter-5-84.
02:17
4-3-Lotty, go.
02:20
We're looking for apartment 813, correct?
02:27
813.
02:29
Copy 8-1-3.
02:31
At the door now, there's no one coming to the door.
02:39
NG1 respond is an EMS unit, number 55 Franklin, Street Weston and Church, that's for a poor of a person's drunk.
02:44
Engine 1 responds is an EMS unit, number 55 Franklin, between West Swan and Church, 2% 1448 hours, off a fire.
03:00
6'5-4-3.
03:02
4-3 go. Okay.
03:05
Marvin 813, if you call them back, they're not coming to the door.
03:08
Roger, stand by.
03:14
I'm still allowed to the order of natural gas at near Dartmouth between Orleans and Eggers to go for engine 33, ladder 6, and B44.
03:25
I still allow for natural gas at near Dartmouth between O'Leans and Eggers to go for engine 33, lighter 6 and B444.
03:34
Your time is 1748, Buffalo Fire.
03:43
14 allocations, police.
03:46
Letter 14 on location with police.
04:02
We have not made contact with any resident, but we're in the mechanical room next to the apartment.
04:08
There is an odor that you could say it smells like gasoline, but I'm not sure if that's exactly what it is.
04:21
All right, I'll send you're up with him up.
04:25
I'll do a little recount it to be fine.
04:28
Yeah,
04:29
there's no other orders anywhere else.
04:32
I haven't made it on treating the apartment.
04:34
I have the keys, but I want to see if they come to the door on their own.
04:39
Well, if you have the key, use it.
04:44
All right.
04:50
4-4 is responding.
04:53
4-4, you're responding 544.
04:55
Dartmouth between Aline Zegger.
04:57
There's an off-site caller reporting on her mother and her son are home,
05:01
and they reported to her an odor of natural gas.
05:04
The CO detectors were going off.
05:06
The call came to us through national fuel.
05:10
He has one-on-one.
05:12
Speed 14-3, this is dispatch.
05:14
The caller is in the lobby.
05:18
Okay,
05:20
we're in the lobby and there's nobody here.
05:25
That's where she said she was.
05:28
All right, we'll look around, thank you.
05:30
We've got a key to the room.
05:31
We're going to gain entry.
05:34
Roger.
05:35
4-3, ladder 5,
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813. We gain entry.
05:39
There is an odor.
05:40
It does smell kind of like gasoline.
05:43
But there's nobody in here.
05:45
It's possible that clothing is contaminated with it, but I can't see a source.
05:50
It's all electric appliances.
05:57
Residence on the way up.
05:58
We talk to gasoline.
05:59
We get a natural gas.
06:03
Yeah,
06:05
non-natural gas, maybe like a paint thinner or nail polish remover, something like that.
06:11
Not exactly gasoline, but similar.
06:24
Dispatch 4-3, only all cops, investigating.
06:27
We did contact with the FBI.
06:29
The police that should hear the scene.
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Location mentioned:
Near Franklin St, Buffalo, NY 14202
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