Hazardous gas situation leads to street closure, Charlottesville VA

Hazardous gas situation leads to street closure

Road Closure

Reported: 08/15/2025 08:20 AM (PDT)

Colony Plaza, 2205 Fontaine Ave Ext, Charlottesville, VA 22903

The incident involved a hazardous gas leak that prompted the evacuation of a nearby strip mall and the closure of the street. Emergency responders assessed the situation and ensured that there were no readings or smells indicating immediate danger.

Audio|Source: Albemarle County Fire and Rescue

02:50

Transcript:
No readings, no smell, no fire emergency from what we can tell. You can hold the engine 5, place other unit services ready. Sorry, engine 7, place other units and services ready. ECCC, Rescue, 503s, transporting 1 to UVA. 5O.B.U.A. 118. Chair Robb, command, command, and a copy. No readings or smell. No fire emergency. Holding engine 7. Other units for return and service when ready? 119. Go ahead. Further defensive stats, we're going to evacuate the second strip mall that's down Ivy Road towards engine 10. The Italian Chief 1. Angel 1D.C. Do we need to respond to Fontaine Avenue for a second engine? Let 21 and 71. Great. Looking for the address and now, sir. I'll let you know. 5 Bravo and 1 Bravo. 5 Bravo to 1 Bravo. We're okay on scene. That's the right, correct, sir. 2171 strip mall, everybody's getting evacuated right now. Okay, I'm correct. We're going, sir. PCC file is in service returning ready. Okay, just update me when that process has been completing. Just to give you an update while we're doing this, there's a phone that happened. further down from the gas leak. All the utilities guys trying to evacuate that area get further up in the parking line away from where the original week was. You said it was a what happened? By the way, the service returning. Let me see one. A small pool of gas when they were trying to clip the line popped up and we can see it. They're trying to cut that off now but try to get their utility gas away from that area. Truck riders, man. I'm going to face to face you. Also advised to keep on the road completely set down, sir. Correct. Okay. Everybody that's been evacuated is now staged, you have to call watch pocket lot underneath the tree right across the sandals built. Okay. Is your company power outside of the 330 zone? Not yes, they're almost there. Just round up the last few stragglers. Get to engine 10, brother. Go to me. Have you completed the evacuation[1]? and part four inclusion to an alpha digit 10. No readings in the secondary strip.

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[1]

evacuation: Order to evacuate additional businesses and bystanders

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Colony Plaza, 2205 Fontaine Ave Ext, Charlottesville, VA 22903

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All right, Colony Plaza, Fontaine Avenue. City is out of engines at this time. We're seeing if we can pull one of the county units. Yes, sir. That's pretty good ahead. The closest county unit. I'm just appreciate it. Thank you. Hi, the committee, DC. I'm clearing engine five for the file on one, Fontaine. Planning 10 is direct. You can show us in. Route page received. 10 pages received around 1113. Let's sir we just add this last engine 111 we want to continue uh... engine 11 until engine 5 months up. You can place in the service. Okay. Engine 11. Fire alarm. Colony Kasa and Fontaine Avenue. 2205, Fontaine Avenue. Respondon now for Tech 2. Engine 11. Fire alarm, Colony Plaza and Fontaine Avenue. 2205, Frontaine Avenue. Respondon on, Alpha Tech 2. Command here, engine kind of problem. Go ahead. Com, Amn, 6 is on location. On location 113. DCC to engine 111. You can disregard, dispatch, city is able to handle. Okay, I'm ahead. Truck 9 run the meter through 2123. I can get you all to run your meter through the strip mall. And when they're finished, if you're not finished, they can come over and give you a hand. I'd like just run a meter through all those before we start to reoccupy. I'm just close. If you see the engine 111. You're ahead. Netcom turns on location. You can go back in service. City engine was able to go ahead and response the call. Engine 5. Fire alarm. Colony Plaza and Fontaine Avenue. 2205. Frontaine Avenue. Respondon Alpha Tech 2.E., Fire alarm. Colony Plaza and Fontaine Avenue. 2.205. Frontaine Avenue. Respondon Alpha Tech 2.11.11. 11.000. 11. 14. Understood. Inj 11. Back and service 1114. Agent 10 Delta, the community. Alpany you need a call, ma'am. This is Tim Delta. Of the occupying, occupying building that we can get into, we have a 6% LEL[1] in one business and 1% and then one adjacent to it, and I'm getting about $38,000 parts of a million on the gas truck. I copy. ECCC to NG5. Okay, confirm the address of that building. ECC engine 5. Two business is affected, sir, the nail salon and pop design building, counter find the address on the exterior of the building on the outside. Don't see a number it. ACC engine five. AECC the engine five. Go ahead for five. MS2, your command. Yeah, so you've been safe and service, uh, probably passcode. Five correct. We'll stairhead to the location just to verify. Okay. Commandantia, did that, Bravo. Can you repeat the readings you have for the nail salon at Papa John's for me? Go ahead. You missed you. Did you have any odor on the exterior of the structure? Negative. I don't have any odor on the exterior. The Ockman was stating in his basement apartment that he caught a faint width of sulfur. We've investigated the entire apartment with no readings on our meter. We were going to try and gain access to the first floor. Just be with double check there. Okay, sounds good, thank you. The leak on ivy has been controlled at this time. Okay, I understand. Thank you. I can't give you the accurate, but just be advised the numbers are severely high. We're not letting anybody else come into the structure. The address is going to be 21, 25, Suite 4, and Suite 5. So the Nails a lot and Pop design, but nobody's coming into the structure this time. Nobody. Okay, are they above 10% LEO? That's negative. We're going to keep the street closed down and evacuees where they are so we can get that space cleared out. If we go above 10, we need to go defensive. With all the respects, I think we need to go defensive now. We're not going to side necessarily no more. And the Charlie side I'm not going back there at all. I got a puff that came out. The Charlie side further towards the restaurant, whatever that building is, perfection nails. So all of us are staying in the park lot away. As a matter of fact, we've got to go back to our engines. Everybody's homebrowse, buy aside, go back to your apparatus now. Truck robbers of commands. I didn't copy any of that. That's something we need to hear. Yeah, it's in Brawlers reporting anybody before that. We're going to go ahead and assume a defensive posture if you can start heading back towards your truck. We're directs. We're on the second floor of that building. You told us to go to getting evacuating a couple last few tenants and we'll be out. Okay. Are you getting your readings there? Negative, no, no readings. Okay. Howdy? Road command, ECCC, emergency traffic[2], activate, emergency times. I understand. All company is operating on fire round, Ivy Road. We'll be in a defensive strategy[4]. We're creating me a defensive strategy. Maint outside of 333 foot location, transportation locations. We'll wait until we hear a report back from CityGAS. Acknowledge far when you're outside of any hazard zone. Minor road command, you see for an update. Okay, go ahead. All right. We've been best headed the basement apartment as well as one of the first or apartments with... No readings, no smell, no fire emergency from what we can tell. You can hold the engine 5, place other unit services ready. Sorry, engine 7, place other units and services ready. ECCC, Rescue, 503s, transporting 1 to UVA. 5O.B.U.A. 118. Chair Robb, command, command, and a copy. No readings or smell. No fire emergency. Holding engine 7. Other units for return and service when ready? 119. Go ahead. Further defensive stats, we're going to evacuate the second strip mall that's down Ivy Road towards engine 10. The Italian Chief 1. Angel 1D.C. Do we need to respond to Fontaine Avenue for a second engine? Let 21 and 71. Great. Looking for the address and now, sir. I'll let you know. 5 Bravo and 1 Bravo. 5 Bravo to 1 Bravo. We're okay on scene. That's the right, correct, sir. 2171 strip mall, everybody's getting evacuated right now. Okay, I'm correct. We're going, sir. PCC file is in service returning ready. Okay, just update me when that process has been completing. Just to give you an update while we're doing this, there's a phone that happened. further down from the gas leak. All the utilities guys trying to evacuate that area get further up in the parking line away from where the original week was. You said it was a what happened? By the way, the service returning. Let me see one. A small pool of gas when they were trying to clip the line popped up and we can see it. They're trying to cut that off now but try to get their utility gas away from that area. Truck riders, man. I'm going to face to face you. Also advised to keep on the road completely set down, sir. Correct. Okay. Everybody that's been evacuated is now staged, you have to call watch pocket lot underneath the tree right across the sandals built. Okay. Is your company power outside of the 330 zone? Not yes, they're almost there. Just round up the last few stragglers. 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