Gas leak causes evacuation and road closure on Cocoa Avenue, Hershey PA
Fire & ArsonA gas leak on Cocoa Avenue required evacuation of nearby construction workers and a bank. Emergency crews closed the road and coordinated the response with the gas company and police.
Audio|Source: Dauphin County Fire - Digital
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Transcript:
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County FP481 will be responding to Cocoa Avenue call.
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And the Captain 48 also going to the Cocoa Avenue call at this time.
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Okay, Captain 48, join me.
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I'll put this one back in pending this.
00:30
Yeah, that'd be fine.
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I have talked to the crew.
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As soon as they've done here, they're going to go switch a vehicle and grab the attack and go.
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Investigation to engines.
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We've got a slide order in the backroom.
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They said to have gas service.
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The Illinois County notified UGI.
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The county is notified.
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County County is arriving.
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Okay, Cap 40.
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And Cap 40, UGI was notified.
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We're going to have to close down Cocoa.
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Oh, sorry, long time.
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County from Tower 48, do you have an ops channel for the Cocoa Avenue call?
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Ops number three.
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The shutdown,
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Cocoa Avenue,
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we're too close.
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So I'm going to close it down in just a moment.
01:41
We're going to need, let me call County.
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We'll get PD out here.
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Engine 48, investigation, closed to Tower 48.
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Help not scan the building evacuated, please.
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I have a manpower one.
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I'll be moving forward.
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What's your manpower interior, engine 48?
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I have two, me and another firefighter.
02:06
County, attack 48's en route to Ridge Road with two.
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Okay, attack, Chris.
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County Captain 48.
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Getting PD there too.
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That's correct.
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We've got to close it down.
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Attack 48.
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Attack 48. All right.
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The tree are the wire is down now and bouncing.
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I understand.
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We have everybody out at this point.
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County FP481 has arrived at Cocoa.
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KFP 41.
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Tower 48, you're going to take command if an officer gets on the scene.
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Finja 48 is staged at the hydrant.
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Captain 48 is on the scene.
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Captain 48 has command.
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I am presently at Amund and Coco,
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keeping the road closed.
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We need to, if we've got the people, we've got construction workers out in front of the bank building.
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We need to get them out of there.
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We need to evacuate the bank.
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300 feet, gentlemen, we need to evacuate.
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Location mentioned:
Cocoa Ave, Hershey, PA 17033
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