Gas leak reported at residence in Hughes, Hughes AR
Fire & ArsonEmergency responders were dispatched to a residence near Blackwood Street in Hughes for a reported gas leak. The caller refused to knock on the door to check if anyone was inside. Police and fire units coordinated to ensure the residence was evacuated safely. EMS was notified and reserve officers were asked to check the house due to the situation.
Audio|Source: East Central Arkansas Public Safety
03:34
Transcript:
00:00
Have you en route to near Blackwood Street there in Hughes.
00:05
Call that the next door neighbor.
00:08
Have the gas leak.
00:10
I got Hughes firing around.
00:17
Ten four.
00:23
She's also going to be outside wearing a blue and gray shirt, and there's going to be another female there wearing an Arkansas shirt.
00:33
She refused to knock on the door to make sure anybody is out.
00:39
I'll tell her to knock on the door.
00:41
If it is a gas leak, everyone needs to be in the house, tell her to go over and knock on the door.
00:47
Ten-four, we don't advise them to knock on the door and then wait until she refuses.
00:54
So we're going to make contact with her.
01:00
I'm almost an hour out, so tell her the fire department gets there before I do.
01:06
Just let me know something.
01:11
Good forward.
01:12
Did you advise her about an hour out?
01:14
Yeah, I'm coming from Palestine.
01:19
Okay, Scott.
01:21
Are you close for 10?
01:28
Where's that at this batch?
01:31
Near Blackwood in Hughes.
01:42
You got?
01:46
Caller reports a bad gas leak.
01:49
The caller refuses to go knocking the door to make sure everybody is out.
02:00
EMS has been notified.
02:02
They're going to start that way just in case.
02:08
We're in contact with, I think we had one and two reserve officers that live down there.
02:14
They went on that medical call when that older gentleman had problem breathing.
02:22
Can you see if you can get one of them out to check on it because of the situation? Make sure everybody is okay in that house.
02:30
Okay, we're calling them now.
02:32
Thank you for my time.
02:36
John, if you make contact with one of them, one of them's going out there, we'd just let me know.
02:43
Stand for one of them.
02:49
6.37 and then we'll fire TV should be en route over that way too.
03:05
Down but 637 he's chief there he'll probably be it he was going that way the fire department one of the other units need to go over that way too if you would go ahead and contact summit gas also in case it's on that natural gas that way because it'll take them to somebody hour and a half to get there if you go ahead and notify them.
03:30
She's on the phone with them now.
03:32
We do have EMS in the route just in case.
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Location mentioned:
Blackwood St, Hughes, AR 72348
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