Possible gas odors investigated in apartment complex, Columbia MD
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a four-story apartment complex near Shining Oceans Way to investigate possible gas or chemical odors. They checked multiple apartments and the parking garage. No hazardous readings were detected, and crews are working to access certain units to find the source.
Audio|Source: Howard County Fire Dispatch
06:51
Transcript:
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1923. Sixth of the Howard Pires off.
00:01
Harris, Rick, 1923.
00:03
Command. No orders and no reading so far on the first floor in the area of 103 and 505, which is working on making access to this park for now.
00:13
1924.
00:14
Command, it's our test.
00:15
Go ahead. When you come up to assist, can you bring tubing? We can get it under these doors just to check before we get a key?
00:23
Yeah, we have a leak in tour too.
00:25
It's okay.
00:26
Safety one in command. Okay, safety one.
00:27
What quadrants are all rooms in? I can use the laser meter to see if I can get it from the outside.
00:32
Okay, safety one, the rooms in question are going to be the first quadrant, which is 103,
00:38
and then 105 is going to be in between the first and second.
00:40
Okay, so quadrant one and in between quadrants one and two, I'm working on it next.
00:44
May is okay.
00:45
The Italian want to come here.
00:46
May I go ahead, Italian one.
00:48
I'm on location.
00:49
You want me to go ahead and take it if you join your crew.
00:51
And I'd like to get somebody in that parking garage underneath you.
00:54
Okay,
00:55
I'm going to get you're working in Quadrant.
00:57
Just let me know the apartments that you're currently checking.
01:00
We've currently checked 106, no orders, no readings, working on making access to 105 and 103 currently.
01:08
I've got one of my firefighters walking out to try and get a key.
01:10
Okay, I'm direct.
01:11
You're going to utilize Tower 10 with you, or you're sending them in a different direction.
01:15
Now I'm on a command.
01:16
Power Ken Shrews walking up with us now.
01:18
Okay, that's right.
01:19
The Italian one, Howard.
01:20
The Italian one.
01:21
near Shining Oceans Way, I'll have to command.
01:24
Four-story apartment complex.
01:28
Crews are currently working.
01:29
An investigative mode.
01:30
1928. Command engine 112.
01:34
Go ahead.
01:35
I believe on Safety One's 360[1] there's an entrance to a parking garage.
01:40
Can you confirm and then check Quadrant 1 area of the parking garage?
01:46
1-2-1 is okay check quadrant 1 of the parking garage if I were you able to locate the subject
01:56
J-11-1-2 5-125 response 69 44 Duckett slain to be for a sick patient alpha 2 1929
02:03
are you able to locate the subject
02:06
Power to 25 Alpha 2[2].
02:07
If you want to come in?
02:09
Command.
02:10
Paramedic 2.
02:11
Not picking off anything with the LZ-30.
02:18
I'll be able to shoot into the parking garage below.
02:21
Not periard.
02:23
Okay, the last part of your message was cut out about the parking garage.
02:27
I'm able to get the detection into the parking garage, nothing found there.
02:31
Okay, I'm that right.
02:32
Do we still need engine one to one to walk the garage or your method was suffice?
02:37
Yeah, we have open grates right here, so anything that was down there would be rising up out of the grades.
02:42
I don't have any odors.
02:43
I was already in the parking garage during that 360[1].
02:45
I didn't have any odors on the other side as well.
02:47
Okay, I'm direct.
02:48
Command engine one, two one, you direct?
02:50
One two one's okay. We're going to head back out to our engines.
02:52
Reposition, alpha side, see if you can sound this alarm.
02:55
Point 21 is okay.
02:56
9-1 a commit.
02:57
9-1-2. 9-1-2.
02:58
Tower 10 user leak a tour around apartments 105 and 103 and not picking up anything.
03:02
We are getting something slight around 102.
03:05
That's our area of interest right now.
03:06
We're working on making access.
03:08
Okay, I'm direct.
03:09
Department 1-02 making access.
03:12
I'm talking up to you the dog owner took the doll cone.
03:16
8.5 drive.
03:18
APS. APS. APS, 1933.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
360: 360 (walkaround or full building survey for hazards)
[2]
Alpha 2: EMS call, low priority (medical check, non-life-threatening)
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Location mentioned:
Near Shining Oceans Way, Columbia, MD 21045
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