Odor of natural gas investigated at residential tower, Worcester MA
Fire units responded to a natural gas odor reported at Canterbury Towers on Wachusett Street. They investigated high carbon monoxide levels near a stove on the sixth floor and checked neighboring apartments for safety.
Audio|Source: Worcester City Fire and EMS
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Transcript:
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Number 6, Wachusett Street for an odor of natural gas, Canterbury Towers.
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Ply 6th Annette earlier this morning.
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Is that off, eh?
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On latitude, that's correct, sir.
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Fire up, A.
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Attention engine 16, ladder 2, rescue 1, car 3.
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Number 6, Wachusett Street, get a hurt out of the car.
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Attention 16,
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ladder 2, rescue 1, car 3.
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Number 6, Wachusett Street, Canterbury Tower is for the smell of natural gas.
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Fireground channel is going to be fire up A.
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And companies have it at 1551.
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(Name withheld), 6 Wachus Street, Canterbury Towers, resident in apartment 6H 6 Henry, reporting across in the apartment.
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Gas company notified for any minute, ETA.
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Your engine 16, ladder 2 rescue.
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3 feet, Canterbury Towers, 6H for natural gas.
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Responding, 1553.
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Latitude 5 on the initial radio report.
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Final Venture, Light of 2.
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Light 2 is on arrival, multi-story residential high-rise.
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Nothing showing outside.
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Light 2 is going to be investigating, hold the current time, and we have Wartreuthu's a command.
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Weather 2 on the scene, you have a high-rise structure, but nothing showing you're investigating at 1553.
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In the 16's level one.
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Mission 12 to fire alarm.
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I see 12.
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Fire alarm.
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Is it 12 to be on the air?
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Headed to the drop to swap over trucks.
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Okay, 12, 15, 55.
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The final will follow.
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Fire the mission, Command.
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Residents reporting odor coming from the stove.
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Fire 2's head up to investigate,
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remaining offensive, the number 6th floor.
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Okay, Command, you're getting reports of the odor coming from the stove on floor number 6.
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You're going up to investigate at 1556.
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Class three to command for command transfer.
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Sanctuary.
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So you guys are heading up to floor number six to investigate odor coming from a stove.
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You have 16 level 1.
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If that's correct, you can't.
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That's correct.
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We just needed entry into the apartment now.
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We haven't ordered getting some readings on the tentative now.
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Okay, we see one of the readings.
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We're at 540 parts per million, I know.
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We're going to see if there's maybe a pilot that should be lit.
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Okay, we see it's 540, parts per million on the subset.
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I'll take it from out here.
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Cochery, file.
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All right, I'm answering country.
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I assume command is the offensive, gonna hold the common assignment.
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Got three in charge now, hold on the cover assignment, 1558.
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The rescue one is unseen 1558.
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Command, fast change.
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Goals, status change.
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Saying readings of 7 percent coming from the back of the stove and a sign out.
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See if we're going to find the leak.
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Okay, received.
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You filed 7 percent of the back of the stove.
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We're going to try to turn it off.
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Command 2, rescue 1.
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Thank you. Just take two teams from that, one team outside.
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Go to six floor assist ladder two.
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Check some of those apartments next door when you get up there.
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You can get up there.
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Seatty one, final.
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Do you want to find out?
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Two way to next you one.
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Rescue one.
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Do you get that?
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Affirm that through two.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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You can show me arrive in six watch you, so I'll be moving alpha.
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