Small active gas leak at Durham strip mall, Durham NC
Fire & ArsonAn active small gas leak was confirmed at a strip mall construction site near Hillsborough Rd in Durham. Fire units and construction crews investigated the odor and located the leak. The leak was small but ongoing and required fire unit response and notifications.
Audio|Source: Durham City Fire
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Transcript:
00:00
Battalion, we're on a one-story strip mall.
00:03
I do have a construction crew out here at Disney by hand.
00:05
There's no odor of gas at the time.
00:07
Edge 10 out of that day.
00:08
Battalion, I can copy your size up, but you got a lot of feedback.
00:11
Copy you are out with a construction crew at the food line and out at best skin.
00:16
Affirmative. All units not on scene, reduce the traffic is non-emergent.
00:19
There's a little bit of a language barrier but no indication of gas leak trying to locate someone to converse with.
00:26
Battalion 1 from Inj10.
00:31
Engine 10B from Inj10.
00:38
Go for 10B.
00:39
Hey,
00:40
pull up behind this police car.
00:41
There's two separate crews digging, and I think the crew further down may have the gas leak.
00:46
And for a moment. Engine 3 is arriving.
00:51
Where you're at, I'm making contact with another worker.
00:53
It's a separate group and he's pointing towards the location.
00:56
Okay, we got an odor down here.
00:57
We'll start checking these holes down here.
00:59
10 for the worker here just indicated the leak is at your location.
01:03
Speedy the engine 10, we're actually down in front of the Euroclassics.
01:05
I'm out with the complaint now.
01:07
10 copy.
01:08
It can be near Hillsborough Rd.
01:13
Battalion one's on the same battalion, I'll assume command.
01:16
Darry from engine 10.
01:17
Has the Embrys been notified?
01:19
No, we didn't know that we had anything just yet.
01:21
There's a definite odor.
01:22
If you can make a notification on your end, I appreciate it.
01:25
The complaint here said he did call as well.
01:26
And I want to confirm that.
01:28
Did it change to near Hillsborough Rd?
01:30
Affirmative, near Hillsborough Road.
01:32
All right, 104, just an odor, no sound or can't see any blowing or anything like that.
01:41
Negative, it's a confirmed hit.
01:42
There's an active gas leak.
01:44
It's a small one, but an active gas leak.
01:45
Okay.
01:46
The Italian one from engine 10.
01:48
Go ahead, 10. I'm confident engine 3, engine 10 can have them.
01:51
You can clear all units. All units with this section of engine 10 and engine 3 can return to service.
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Location mentioned:
Near Hillsborough Rd, Durham, NC 27705
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