Firefighters manage gas levels during residential fire, West Des Moines IA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters were at a fire scene, managing the gas levels and ensuring that nearby homes were evacuated due to potential danger.
Audio|Source: Westcom Fire and EMS Dispatch
02:47
Transcript:
00:00
No, I think we're good here. I copy. Chief, we're just cooling down at this point. Thank you, Ruby. Traffic. We're just cooling the engine down at this point.
00:24
Copy, I'm going to come to face face with you real quick. Go ahead on six. He's getting a reason of eight on the upper. Copy. He progressed back towards those houses on the, would be northeast of where he's currently located.
00:52
Do we have any occupancy there that we need to worry about getting out? We cleared out 6401. I'll talk to 6011. Copy. I think those two probably should get us what we need based off the windscreen direction here.
01:18
Twin and 401 on tax six. Traffic from 401.
01:27
Jim, are you having an 8% reading on the LEL[1] for that device? Is that what you're saying?
01:35
Correct.
01:36
Take that 10 now.
01:37
Okay, based off of that, let's make sure those areas are evacuated.
01:41
We can continue to spot check in and around there with firefighter polls, but as he sees that female walking up there, we need her to stop and turn around.
01:50
It looks like you got the female you're talking about.
01:52
Yeah, Paul's got her to turn around, come back.
01:55
Let's go ahead and get to make sure we have 60101 and 6011 evacuated.
02:00
You're working on a living right now.
02:02
And let's keep ignition sources down from around that area as well, please.
02:06
Copy.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
LEL: Lower Explosive Limit (gas hazard indicator)
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Location mentioned:
82nd St, West Des Moines, IA 50266
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