Gas odor prompts evacuation at restaurant and office, Wichita KS
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a strong gas smell at a restaurant and medical office. They evacuated people from the buildings, checked for gas leaks on multiple floors, and blocked nearby streets to keep everyone safe.
Audio|Source: Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Tac 1-7
05:23
Transcript:
Engine 11, if you're en route, you can disregard each muscle team. Engine 5, from Battalion 3 on Tech 1. RF gas company coming. Top of that, Chief. We're inside the OBGYN place, and we do have an odor of gas, so we're going to try to get entry to (name withheld). He's about ready to pull up. If you want to let them make entry in there, then that way if we need to pull line, let's pull on. You can copy that. 3 is on sync. Tany 3 is going to go ahead and be Douglas command. From engine 5. We're going to go ahead and pull a line. We do have gas coming out of odor and borough restaurant. Okay, pretty heavy smell. Let's go ahead and have squad five block off that street there and let's kind of position ourselves where we're not going to get hit if that thing explodes. The apartment's upstairs also. 10-4[1]. Engine 5. Go ahead and have your engine pull up here where I'm at out of the way and we can stretch back if we need waters fly. Copy that. Engine 11 is west. Titan 3. You might want to get PD over here maybe to block Douglas at Hillside. That's 10-4. Thank you. I'll get it done. If you guys want, just stand by where you're at. You're going to block it off right there for now. If I need you, I'll just have you come on up then. 10-4. We just cleared Pearl OBGYN the original calling party. We got a smell, but nothing comes up on the meter. We have completely evacuated it. We got all the doors open. We're going to move over to the Borough now. I got it from command. Can you get into that building and I want to check the smell above it on the multiple floors above? Copy. Okay. Okay. And from so three. Go ahead. All right. Hey, Chief. It's kind of the same narrative here. We've got a light odor. Nothing on the foregass. I don't know if you want us to start heading to upper floors or what. Yeah, let's take a precaution on this. Go ahead and join squad five. Let's evacuate up above. Take the squad five. This is truck three. We've got a heavy order on 4-1. We've gone to the top and we're working our way down. I'll copy 4th floor. I'll send my meter to 4. Where do you want us to start to point people out on 4 or 3? Fly 5. When you say floor 1, is that going to be street level? Just because I know we have the restaurant down below. Or is that right at that entrance where they come in? Yeah, that's street level. We've cleared four of five and four. It's clear up here. Okay, 10-4. So you said you have it on street level, and then you said, what, faint owner on the floor above that? Is that what you said? We haven't made it to two yet. 4 if something bad goes on, I want you guys to come on up. But if they get there, go ahead and pull your engine up by the truck. We have a higher and close for engine 5. Okay, 10-4. We did lay our cones out, blocking the traffic. PD is here. I don't know if you want to go your way or to the north or anything, but they are here. Yeah, I think if you come up by... the truck, just park over there and you guys go ahead and pack up. You can hang out there in the shade and we'll wait until we figure out what's going on.
Engine 11, if you're en route, you can disregard each muscle team. Engine 5, from Battalion 3 on Tech 1. RF gas company coming. Top of that, Chief. We're inside the OBGYN place, and we do have an odor of gas, so we're going to try to get entry to (name withheld). He's about ready to pull up. If you want to let them make entry in there, then that way if we need to pull line, let's pull on. You can copy that. 3 is on sync. Tany 3 is going to go ahead and be Douglas command. From engine 5. We're going to go ahead and pull a line. We do have gas coming out of odor and borough restaurant. Okay, pretty heavy smell. Let's go ahead and have squad five block off that street there and let's kind of position ourselves where we're not going to get hit if that thing explodes. The apartment's upstairs also. 10-4[1]. Engine 5. Go ahead and have your engine pull up here where I'm at out of the way and we can stretch back if we need waters fly. Copy that. Engine 11 is west. Titan 3. You might want to get PD over here maybe to block Douglas at Hillside. That's 10-4. Thank you. I'll get it done. If you guys want, just stand by where you're at. You're going to block it off right there for now. If I need you, I'll just have you come on up then. 10-4. We just cleared Pearl OBGYN the original calling party. We got a smell, but nothing comes up on the meter. We have completely evacuated it. We got all the doors open. We're going to move over to the Borough now. I got it from command. Can you get into that building and I want to check the smell above it on the multiple floors above? Copy. Okay. Okay. And from so three. Go ahead. All right. Hey, Chief. It's kind of the same narrative here. We've got a light odor. Nothing on the foregass. I don't know if you want us to start heading to upper floors or what. Yeah, let's take a precaution on this. Go ahead and join squad five. Let's evacuate up above. Take the squad five. This is truck three. We've got a heavy order on 4-1. We've gone to the top and we're working our way down. I'll copy 4th floor. I'll send my meter to 4. Where do you want us to start to point people out on 4 or 3? Fly 5. When you say floor 1, is that going to be street level? Just because I know we have the restaurant down below. Or is that right at that entrance where they come in? Yeah, that's street level. We've cleared four of five and four. It's clear up here. Okay, 10-4. So you said you have it on street level, and then you said, what, faint owner on the floor above that? Is that what you said? We haven't made it to two yet. 4 if something bad goes on, I want you guys to come on up. But if they get there, go ahead and pull your engine up by the truck. We have a higher and close for engine 5. Okay, 10-4. We did lay our cones out, blocking the traffic. PD is here. I don't know if you want to go your way or to the north or anything, but they are here. Yeah, I think if you come up by... the truck, just park over there and you guys go ahead and pack up. You can hang out there in the shade and we'll wait until we figure out what's going on.
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10-4: Acknowledgement/Received
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Location mentioned:
S Hillside St & E Douglas Ave, Wichita, KS 67214
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