Liquid nitrogen leak contained at commercial facility, Pocomoke City MD
Fire & ArsonFire and hazmat teams responded to a liquid nitrogen leak at a commercial facility near Clark Avenue in Berlin, Maryland. The leak was secured, oxygen levels were checked, and the situation was contained without injuries.
Audio|Source: Worcester County Fire and EMS, State Police and Highway
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Transcript:
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Hardware LLC, near Clark Avenue,
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Tanker,
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Virginia Engine 14,
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being alerted.
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Minute two all looking.
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Copy minute two.
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Central,
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1727 out of two-person team entering.
00:40
Got it.
00:47
Two-fifty to command.
00:49
We were able to secure an elite.
01:04
We're going to stay right here we need it.
01:06
We're going to need somebody to the government trust.
01:07
I don't see the levels in the building.
01:10
Let's look it's been across the way to this area.
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4-1 transporting TPRMC.
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Copy Permanick 4-4-1.
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Actually, if you can find somebody from the maintenance division,
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if anybody's not here yet, then knows this system.
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Make sure that when we cut this now,
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it's not going to affect the rest of their system.
01:51
Everything appears to be in working water for their system.
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But we can't tell, and there's a lot of place buildup from where the Prontetics has been going.
02:04
Copy that. Are you going to be able to make entry to the building to check that area?
02:11
Is there anything over here is a roll-up towards of some place? You know, we can't get to it.
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Actually,
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yeah, it's a roll-up to it, so I don't know how we can't.
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There's nothing to the, uh,
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see how to get in there.
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Let's walk around for a second and we'll try and figure something out.
02:27
Okay. Copy.
02:30
But we do have the leaks secure.
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And VEVI, just liquid nitrogen,
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not liquid oxygen, but liquid nitrogen.
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1728, leak secure.
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Copy.
02:49
Kyle, do you know if anybody's working in there at all today or are you all going?
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They were working earlier, 130 had made contact or signed to make contact with other employees.
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Okay.
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If anything that we have a problem with in there, it's going to be at this place with any type of oxygen in there.
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But it looks like I said, it looks like it's pretty much contained through the Val area that we were able to get shut off.
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Copy.
03:34
All the O2 levels out here are kind of sufficient.
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There's still going to remain on here with all the stuff around here.
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Command 130, were you able to make contact with anybody to make a response,
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the maintenance people?
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Stand by.
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The command, 20 minutes on team.
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We're okay, everybody's in sight.
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Copy.
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Location mentioned:
Clarke Ave, Pocomoke City, MD 21851
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