Gas line fire leads to evacuation near NE Grant St, Hillsboro OR


Fire crews and Northwest Natural responded to a gas line incident near Northeast Grant Street in Hillsboro, Oregon. Nearby houses were evacuated as a precaution. The gas line was secured, and after safety checks, residents were allowed to return to their homes. Emergency responders monitored the situation closely throughout the event.
Audio|Source: Washington County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
00:00
Fire Congenade on 32.
00:03
Go ahead.
00:07
Show VR86 on the call, engine 8484s.
00:15
Firecone, AMR 132 here.
00:18
Go ahead.
00:21
119, the 19th, we're coming from a river and bridge.
00:26
Coming.
00:31
Thank you, Tee Tee from the meeting.
00:36
Hey, Gigi, go ahead.
00:39
Yeah, just an update of a number of folks digging to reach the line.
00:45
It's pretty deep. I just want to give me an update. They're still working to get to the line.
00:52
Oh, they lost.
00:57
Copy. I've got a Northwest Natural gentleman here. We're checking the houses that evacuated.
01:03
And so far everything is good.
01:08
Command, copy.
01:10
If they check the houses and they think that folks are good to reenter, I'm good with that if you are.
01:18
Copy, thank you.
01:23
Near Northeast Grant Street.
01:26
Cross streets are Northeast Turner Drive and Northeast Cornell Road.
01:34
Hey, Chief, I don't know if, I didn't take any numbers for anybody.
01:38
They all kind of, when we said, hey, they just locked up their stuff and left.
01:43
Is that something,
01:45
just asking reverse 911 or reverse call them for the address?
01:52
I'll check into that, thanks.
02:00
5 AMR 115 responding to near Northeast Grant Street. This will be for a 55-year-old female who possibly has not been taking mental health meds. Her speech is limited, which is not normal for her.
02:13
She is cooperative. They're requesting could one in the area.
02:20
Check five guys.
02:23
Okay.
02:26
Okay.
02:27
Okay. Okay.
02:28
Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you.
02:34
Okay. Command from engine 6. A.A. It's shut down.
02:37
Okay.
02:41
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Do you go ahead.
02:42
Okay.
02:49
Northwest Natural secured the line, so we should be good to DEMO if I'm working on calling WACA to reverse Vend and run those calls.
03:03
Copy that. Sounds good.
03:10
Cross streets are Northwest 21st Avenue and Northeast 67th Avenue.
03:21
Can you repeat that one?
03:22
Yeah,
03:26
a lot of them just went over to the park.
03:28
We'll just kind of drive over there and see and let them know that they hit back in if you're good with that.
03:36
Sounds good, thank you.
03:53
You can show command terminated.
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