Natural gas leak isolated at school gymnasium, Boulder CO
Fire & ArsonFire department units responded to a natural gas leak at the gymnasium of Boulder Valley School District. The leak was isolated to the northwest side of the gym. The affected area, including nearby closets and offices, was evacuated and sealed off. Maintenance and energy company Excel Energy were notified to address the leak. Gas concentration was measured at vents on the north and northeast sides, with high levels detected. Efforts continued to locate the exact source and ventilate the area to restore safe operation.
Audio|Source: Boulder City Fire
06:22
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 141, Tower 141.
00:04
Go ahead.
00:08
Yeah, we finally got a meter to allowing that and exhaust up here.
00:17
Okay,
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standby. I'm going to contact dispatch, brake.
00:20
Dispatch engine, one-for-one, KC command.
00:24
Can you go ahead and contact BVSD? We've tried several times here,
00:29
unable to contact.
00:31
So if you can do that for me, let them know we have an active gas leak in the building.
00:36
Calvi, I'll go ahead and contact BVSD.
00:38
Do you know if maintenance is en route or do you need me to ask them to have maintenance in route as well?
00:44
Let's go ahead and out as well. You can notify them that it's going to be the gym on the northwest corner, the basketball gymnasium,
00:52
on the northwest corner of the surface.
00:54
Copy, and do you need me to contact Intel as well?
00:58
Yeah, go ahead and add them to call as well.
01:00
Yeah, go ahead and add that way to the other call.
01:03
Copy all contact them both.
01:10
Power 1-4-1 Engine 1-4-1. Go ahead with your findings.
01:14
What readings are you getting on those meters?
01:18
I'm sorry, didn't copy.
01:25
Yeah, honey, can you give us the readings? What are you getting at those vent points? And let me know what side of the gym you're on if you're on the east or the west side.
01:36
The Viz that we found was on the north,
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probably more north-east side,
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and standby for the reads.
01:51
This command of 9100.
01:55
Go ahead.
02:01
I have BVSD on the phone. They're inquiring if you guys are evacuating the building.
02:11
We have isolated the gymnasium area and all the jane closet spaces and office spaces to there. We believe we've isolated it to one wing of the gym and the attached closets and office spaces off of there.
02:25
But it is evacuated. We shut down YMCA.
02:29
Tommy, I'll go ahead, let me know. Thank you.
02:32
Tower, Charlie, Tower Alpha.
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Go ahead.
02:38
Yeah, you hit it back up this way.
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Yeah, I'm coming.
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Tower one for one alpha, engine one for one.
02:55
When you guys get down to ground level, can you guys work your way over to this, to the gym?
03:00
They're just stairs off to the Bravo side. We have doors open for you.
03:05
We're going to need your meters into this area.
03:07
I've got Marshall tied in with Reese.
03:11
We found a rough access on this Bravo side, and they're going to get onto this area where we have the highest concentration of gas.
03:20
Okay, yeah, I think I saw that roof access, you talked about all over by the soccer fields?
03:26
April.
03:27
Yeah, I saw that roof alpha, that roof access also.
03:32
Yeah, we'll be done shortly.
03:35
Sounds good, we'll see you over here in the gym.
03:41
DC-143.
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Engine 143. We've got the gym evacuated.
03:46
We've got the doors closed.
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We're going to go ahead and check out the roof on the Bravo side.
03:53
From there,
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if we can isolate this to figure out exactly where it's coming from, we're going to try and isolate and ventilate space.
04:00
See if we can get it back operation.
04:03
That's 9143. Okay. I copy.
04:05
Case command of 90100.
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Dr. Case, come in.
04:11
Comrade,
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they are attempting to get maintenance and route. They are having no longer getting a hold of the maintenance personnel, but they are continually trying.
04:18
Xcel has been notified.
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They are going to get units and route as soon as available. They didn't have an ETA as well.
04:25
Okay,
04:27
copy, thank you. If you can let Xcel know,
04:30
we are going to be operating on the Charlie side of the building, so that's going to be the north side.
04:36
Copy.
04:38
Command Tower 141, Charlie.
04:41
Go ahead.
04:43
Yeah, the highest LAL I got, the highest LAL I got was 90% and the CEO was 1,700 in Resum.
04:53
That was from that vent point up there. Yes, sir.
05:02
Yeah, we'll try and figure out if we could chase that vent point down, but we can expect to have higher than elevated readings from there just because it is a bent.
05:12
So, good copy. We're going to continue to investigate the sign.
05:16
Tower 141, Charlie, Tower 141, Bravo.
05:19
Good.
05:23
Yes, Zach, which of these vents was giving you the readings? We got two sewer looking vents and then two kind of HVAC metal vents.
05:32
Which one was it?
05:34
It was the HVAC. It looks a little burnt at the top.
05:44
Engine 141 Alpha Tower 141, Bravo.
05:48
Go ahead, Marshall.
05:54
Yeah, Mellie, based on what Reese is seeing in, it's sounding like there's some bubbling from condensation, Reese thinks it's kind of from a backup problem in this A-track system.
06:04
Okay.
06:05
Are there any RTs up there or are they all vents?
06:13
It's all vents. We have access to the, it's an under-roof-mounted unit here in the storage closet, and we're going to try to pop some panels and look inside.
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Location mentioned:
Boulder Valley School District RE-2, CO
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