Gas leak reported from oxygen tanker near Marion St, Lynn MA


A passerby reported smoke and a gas odor coming from an 18-wheeler truck near the intersection of Federal Street and Marion Street. Fire responders arrived and found a gas leak caused by a ruptured outside oxygen tank from the company Airgas. The situation was monitored and the venting of the gas was nearly complete. There were no fires, explosions, or injuries reported.
Audio|Source: Lynn Fire Department
04:44
Transcript:
00:00
Blent telephone alarm by the Rotary at Federal Street, Edmarion Street for an 18-wheeler.
00:07
Passer buyer reports an 18-wheeler with smoking and an odor of gas comes from the outside.
00:14
Responses, engines 379, Meyer 2, H1, C4.
00:19
Strikeer Box 615 Operations Channel 2. Again.
00:23
That's a passerby reporting at Federal Street at Marion Street,
00:28
an 18-wheeler smoking with an outside odor of gas.
00:32
This response is engine 379, ladder 2, H1, C4. Checkerbox 615, 615, operations channel 2.
00:45
Um, engine 9's responding from the car.
00:49
Engine 9, you're responding from the...
00:53
Just be advised,
00:54
she wasn't able to tell me if it was straight in front of the market basket, so either federal by market square or federal at Marion.
01:03
Okay, engine on.
01:10
File on, seven responding, switching to the tail two.
01:14
Engine seven responding, switching to channel two.
01:19
Go ahead, the fire alarm line, search.
01:23
So I'll be responded with India 1-256, Washington Street, back inlaught of the church, had injury unknown mechanism.
01:36
Fire alarm from Enter 13.
01:39
Answering engine three.
01:42
Before responding. Before responding.
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C4, you're responding.
01:51
Engines 3, 7 and 9 on scene.
01:57
Fire alarm from engine 3?
02:00
Answer in engine 3.
02:03
We're investigating a gap-off condition from a tanker.
02:10
Received investigating a gas, gas condition from a tanker.
02:16
Companies grab your meter.
02:25
You want to arrive in 256, Washington.
02:28
Did they have a specific area?
02:33
No, we got it from the police, they said in the pack, a lot of the church.
02:41
C4 for mention 3.
02:48
C4 is a...
02:51
C4 appears to be a rupture from the outside oxygen tank.
02:56
The company's name is air gas.
03:09
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03:18
Ah, read these.
03:19
We'll get that B in a second.
03:25
H1's on scene.
03:28
H1 on scene.
03:34
And you're one from Fireline.
03:40
Go ahead.
03:42
From the police, they said they're on the Washington Street side now.
03:47
Yeah,
03:52
they're down just beyond the station, just the ambulance,
03:59
just going in front of Hotel Osmond.
04:03
Okay, receipt, Lennox 12.
04:14
Atlantic 12, it's going to be between the police station and Liberty Street, the Hotel Osmond, the Paco.
04:23
Okay.
04:27
All right, you want to see.
04:34
C4 on Cemetery.
04:37
C4 is off.
04:39
Jazz confirmed, it's straight oxygen.
04:42
The vent off is almost complete.
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