Gas leak prompts evacuation at apartment building, Manassas VA
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to an apartment building in Manassas due to high gas readings indicating a possible gas leak. Residents were evacuated while firefighters searched adjacent apartments and floors two and three to find the source. A contractor reported nails damaging gas lines near the water heater area. The location was near a prior fire site. Maintenance and site managers were en route to assist with investigation and repairs.
Audio|Source: Prince William County Police and Fire
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Transcript:
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Engine 9 from command.
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Engine 9, go ahead.
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See if they stay on floor 3, search the adjacent apartments and then make our way to floor 2.
00:09
Copy. Checking the adjacent apartments to 42.
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Major 508 is listening.
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Command from Ranger 508, you want us to stay at our unit, do you want us to continue in? If you can get you to continue in, make your way to floor two.
00:25
I want to start evacuating the residents from the building,
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simultaneously searched for a possible point of origin.
00:33
Okay, copy.
00:34
Go to proceed to floor 2, assist with evacuation, try to assist with locating the source.
00:39
6348, hold me out of the Antietum Elementary, please.
00:42
Okay. And from engine on,
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we've accessed three, four, one, I mean three, four, three.
00:47
We're having the occupants evacuate.
00:49
We do have a lower reading in there, but still we're centered at higher ratings are around three, four, two.
00:57
Do you know me for a grain gone in a waitwork fan?
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3.42, we were getting as high as 4% LEL.
01:02
Ann,
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from Tower 1.
01:04
Go ahead. Nett the gas rep on 4-4 and told him what we count, he found the same.
01:08
We come outside, we're going to walk onto the front of the building.
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Just check there.
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Command's correct.
01:12
Command from Tower One driver.
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I got the maintenance guy coming your way.
01:17
Thank you. The evening in the Silver Chevy's attendance.
01:24
No answer. Can you see the maintenance guy here?
01:31
340, can you please hold me out at Pennington Traditional School?
01:34
Okay. May as direct, if I can get you to do a face-to-face at the buggy located in the roundabout.
01:39
6342, can you hold me on to Ellis Elementary?
01:42
6,342.
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Convention 9.
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Check, 341.
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Occupants are evacuating.
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No odor, minimal gas readings.
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Still 342 is the high reading.
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1570.
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15-0. We know if we have a match, you're going to call for today.
01:56
Go ahead. I had a contractor tell me that in the process of replacing some of this wood, some of his workers have found that there's been nails through the CCST that's running up for water heater.
02:07
He's not sure where it was at, though.
02:09
Command's direct. Vision 1 for command,
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site manages in route to your location.
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Major 1 is okay.
02:17
Also, we have a rack on floor 2, so if you can have someone hit the F2 if needed, do not charge it though.
02:27
Command from Tower 1.
02:29
Go Tower 1.
02:30
Hey, we're on the first floor and the hallway behind all the business is checking here.
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corridor behind the front facing buildings.
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Information 509.
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Go ahead.
02:41
Speaking with the contractor that's working on the siding,
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that noticed the nail.
02:45
I'd like to remove the firewood that they put up and take a look at those lines.
02:50
The command is direct.
02:51
That's on the location where the fire previously was a few months ago, correct?
02:54
Not sure exactly.
02:55
Can you do it face-to-face with that contract, see if you can locate the exact spot where they identified that problem before we do any destruction?
03:03
Okay, we're going to relocate to 242 because that's where the area that he's talking about is.
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Manassas, VA
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