Natural gas leak near west front and south church streets, Burlington NC

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/14/2025 07:50 AM

W Front St & S Church St, Burlington, NC 27215

Fire crews responded to a natural gas leak near west front street and south church street in Burlington. They isolated the leak and coordinated with the gas company to contain it. Some responding units were canceled after the situation was controlled.

Audio|Source: Guilford Metro Fire

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Transcript:

00:00

The plane one, engine one, engine two, engine three,

00:04

squad one, car one, truck one, car two,

00:07

will be in front of the police department at west front and south church, west front and south church, representative to a gas leak, utilize Tech 30.

00:23

Engine 4, 600, tipped in place, outside fire.

00:28

Cross streets are escort in westgate city boulevard.

00:35

The engine one all seen.

00:37

Engine one will have front command.

00:39

I'm not skating.

00:43

Hit one.

00:48

Have an active gasoline.

00:55

From front command.

00:57

Front command, go ahead.

01:00

We do have an active gas leak.

01:02

Have you gotten contact with piedmont natural gas?

01:06

Same for we're calling at this time.

01:08

Can you advise what size line?

01:14

Possibly a three-quarter inch service line could be pulled out of the main.

01:25

Part 1. Go ahead.

01:32

Car 1, go ahead.

01:36

Captain, you good with this isolating like we have it set up now?

01:42

Yes, sir, I believe engine 1 and engine 2 down is probably sufficient due to them already having the roadblock off.

01:51

Copy that. Let's keep engine one, engine two with truck one, because they're blocking traffic for you also.

01:56

And then I think we can cancel car two,

02:00

engine three, and squad.

02:04

Copy sound good to me.

02:08

Third, copy, cancel.

02:12

Squad I want copy, cancel.

02:16

Cartoon copy, copy.

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W Front St & S Church St, Burlington, NC 27215

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