Reports of natural gas odor in northfield neighborhoods, Northfield MN
Fire & ArsonMultiple reports of natural gas odor were received in Northfield neighborhoods near Jefferson Parkway, Stafford Lane, Bridgewater Elementary, and other locations. Fire units and energy company personnel responded to investigate the possible gas leak but could not pinpoint the source. Some buildings reported a gas smell inside, but no external source was found. The situation affected several areas with a strong south wind.
Audio|Source: Rice County Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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I took another call from another citizen near Eliana Drive.
00:04
I was going to page it.
00:05
I don't know if this is the same gas leak problem or smell problem as the one near Stafford.
00:16
Can you just open it as information for the moment? I'll call.
00:20
Ten-four. I'll put it in as info.
00:30
806 and 801 on fire 2.
00:33
I'm now closer to Kwik Trip and there's no more odor and it's a strong south wind so it would not surprise me if something was pushing to the north.
00:46
Wood Avenue,
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26th Street Avenue for a 73-year-old male who has fallen.
00:52
Dispatch Clear 1528.
00:58
dispatch 2,100 copies,
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medical.
01:06
I'm wondering if it might not have been like a tanker truck, like the JJ Days one.
01:15
Because I could smell it outside my house as soon as I got out, but I don't smell it over here by better air anymore.
01:26
I was behind that the Old Gleason shop, the school district shop, and I smelled it just before the page came out, and I do not smell it here anymore either.
01:38
To the east towards Aliana.
01:49
I will start hanging that way also.
01:51
I did check the Gleason's old office building at the regulator, car time, at the regulator,
01:58
and talked to a couple guys out in the parking lot at car time, and no one else smelled it anymore either.
02:08
Tell me, and just advising ambulance is staged.
02:19
3,03550, copy notes.
02:26
Just back from 81.
02:32
FYI Xcel Energy has about 10 other locations that have probably the same issue in case you get more calls.
02:40
Copy. We're taking a bunch.
02:46
They have text heading to Stafford.
02:48
We'll meet up with them there.
02:55
8115 dispatch here.
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Rout, PSL.
03:03
115, copy.
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815 to 8101
03:13
Yeah Tom, where I left my house in Spears smelled that same gas smell all the way over on that side of town
03:24
Copy that.
03:25
I don't know if you heard, but Xcel Energy has taken about a dozen calls they said for that whole south end of town.
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Copy that.
03:41
...and from Thracistur.
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S.P.173.
03:49
You call student if the address to their person in crisis, please.
03:53
Yeah, it's going to be a minute.
03:54
If you're able to do it by radio, that would be helpful.
04:02
D106 to 802 on fire two.
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And on scene.
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All from Bridgewater Elementary staying the same thing.
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They've got a strong smell of gas in the building, but nothing.
04:23
I had them go outside and they have, he said it's nothing outside, so whatever it is, past there too.
04:31
Ten, four, yeah.
04:32
I'm at the soccer field, there's no smell of gas over here at all anymore.
04:40
Are you still at Stafford because it sounds like that's where Xcel was going to head first?
04:50
Yep, I'm still over here and I can hold tight for him.
04:55
Just for fun, I'm going out to that mercaptain station by the St.
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Olaf Highway 19 entrance.
05:00
There's nothing happening there.
05:06
Dispatch for 8101.
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We're going to hold other 8100 units.
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We're going to be holding all other 8100 units.
05:21
801 from 8125 on two.
05:29
Go ahead on two.
05:30
Uh,
05:34
where would you like to head up to Stafford Lane, I assume?
05:40
Talk to 06, I don't think there's anything going on there.
05:42
We can't pinpoint anything.
05:49
806 from 81.25 on fire 2.
05:56
Okay.
06:00
Where would you like us to respond to?
06:06
If you wouldn't, just respond routine to the Bridgewater Middle School area.
06:13
Jesse's over at the soccer field.
06:15
I did get a report from Bridgewater Elementary that they smell it in the building.
06:19
So maybe if you wouldn't mind to stop in the parking lot,
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and I'll give my custodian a call and have a meet you out there if you want you to go in and check the building there.
06:29
But I'm sure it's just what I pass through.
06:32
Here is blue...
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Jefferson Pkwy, Northfield, MN 55057
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