Gas odor reported at springfield apartment building, Springfield MA
Fire units responded to a report of a natural gas odor on the first floor of a four-story apartment building near Oakland Street in Springfield. Investigation found workers in the basement were repairing water heaters and had turned off the gas. There was no active gas leak and no fire was found.
Audio|Source: Springfield Fire
03:17
Transcript:
00:00
Command 2. Truck 3.
00:03
Engine 3.
00:04
Respond to near Oakland Street.
00:07
First floor left.
00:08
Natural gas.
00:21
Follow the engine three and truck three.
00:25
Truck three, sorry.
00:26
You're very long.
00:27
Go ahead.
00:30
Receive. You're responding to near Oakland Street.
00:35
Near Oakland Street is going to be on the first floor on the left-hand side for a natural gas smell.
00:51
Truck 3 and fireline.
00:54
Probably on for truck 3.
00:56
We're engine 3, truck 3 on-team.
00:58
That's 4-story.
00:59
Apartment building.
01:01
Nothing showing, investigating truck 2 and command, and update to follow.
01:05
Receive truck 3, going to take command, on-scene with engine 3.
01:08
4-story apartment building, nothing's showing.
01:11
We'll be investigating updates to follow.
01:18
Problem to truck 3.
01:22
Jeffers-Barre.
01:24
The caller did say he was located on the first floor, left back.
01:29
That was the best description you can give me about where he was located at.
01:37
Police.
01:40
Opening Command and Firelaw?
01:46
Can you get the caller on the phone, tell him to meet with him the hallway?
01:50
We have them on the phone, sir.
01:51
I think there's a disability issue.
01:53
We're trying to see whether or not he can get someone to meet you guys.
01:56
Stand by, okay.
01:57
Okay?
02:02
First floor to follow.
02:05
Go ahead, sir.
02:06
Go ahead, sir.
02:08
We're back in service, we're able to gain entry to a second floor window, no damage done AMR care.
02:14
Please, sir.
02:15
Back in service, able to get entry AMR care.
02:23
File on the engine 30 torque 3?
02:29
Go ahead.
02:31
Would you guys say you would make entry?
02:36
That's negative.
02:38
We see. So we got a male subject with indicating he's disabled.
02:41
We've asking him to ask his girlfriend to come out and open the door and we're just having some difficulties.
02:46
He's just being very direct on the phone.
02:48
Stand by.
02:57
Final time for Oakland Street Command.
02:59
Yeah, you can turn any command.
03:00
Put truck three and just three vacuum service.
03:02
They got workers in the basement working on the water heaters.
03:05
They turn off the gas to the property, so if someone smell something, it was probably just a pocket of gas.
03:11
But there's no gas coming into the property right now.
03:14
We see workers in the basement working on the heaters.
03:16
I got you guys back in service.
03:17
Thank you.
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Location mentioned:
Near Oakland St, Springfield, MA 01108
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