Smoke from radiator heating causes carbon monoxide alert, Dormont PA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, smoke and heat from a radiator and floor heating caused a carbon monoxide detector alarm in an apartment near Oklahoma Ave in Dormont, Pennsylvania. Authorities investigated and found elevated carbon monoxide levels, though no gas appliances were present. The cause may be a faulty meter or detector.
Audio|Heard on: Allegheny County Fire - East
Listen to dispatch call
02:29
Transcript:
00:00
Command from interior.
00:06
Go ahead.
00:09
All right.
00:11
They came up for this other issue.
00:13
Apartment 311 has 57 parts per million in a car room on outside.
00:19
Okay.
00:20
County, notify Peoples Gas, please.
00:26
Job, y'all almost over them right now.
00:32
County Apartment 311 has stopped us.
00:34
She said her detector was going off.
00:41
Okay.
00:44
Okay.
00:49
Okay, is there a gas stove in there?
00:52
No,
00:54
that's where I'm sort of confused.
01:00
Want a second meter up here?
01:03
Yeah.
01:15
We're getting you a second meter, Dave, but I have a feeling that's probably just a bad meter and a bad detector if there's no gas appliances in there.
01:29
Hey Jones, do these have individual water tanks or are they in the basement?
01:38
No, it's all in the basement or there should be a utility room up there in the middle.
01:48
All right.
01:58
Command, the second meter was up to 65.
02:04
Okay, how about in the hall outside or anything, or it's just in that one apartment?
02:17
30 parts per million.
02:18
They're going back into the original smoke area.
02:27
10-4
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Allegheny County, PA
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