Gas leak in oven at Elmhurst apartment

Heard on: DuPage IL Fire Dispatch Group Calls

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This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

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Gas leak inside, (number withheld) West Virginia Street, Elmhurst battalion one engine two ladder two cross street of south york street and south cottage hill road.

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Companies are out to Virginia Street.

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You're going to unit three.

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Caller says she came home and smelled gas in the apartment.

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No reported sickness or injury at this time.

00:23

It's coming from the oven.

00:25

No further info.

00:28

DuComm, we're still telling you what's on the scene of a two-story apartment building.

00:32

We have no evacuation.

00:34

We have all companies over to fire on white.

00:36

That will be Virginia.

00:37

Come in.

00:39

Must receive two-story, no evac, fire ground white and command.

00:44

All companies for Virginia Street, switch to and acknowledge.

00:47

Battalion One, fire ground white.

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Pickup from Virginia command.

00:54

Go ahead.

00:57

Engine Two, final leak in the oven.

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Engine Two to handle.

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I'll be returning and ladder two is available.

2026-09-13 17:05 UTC

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Virginia St, Elmhurst, IL 60126

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As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a reported gas leak inside an apartment on West Virginia Street in Elmhurst. The caller said she smelled gas coming from an oven when she returned home. Responders reported a two-story apartment building with no evacuation and indicated the leak was in the oven and being handled by the crew.

Gas leak in oven at Elmhurst apartment

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