Elevated carbon monoxide found in residential building, Ithaca NY
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a medium-sized residential building near E Seneca St in Ithaca due to elevated carbon monoxide levels detected at 300 parts per million. They shut off the gas at the stove and searched for possible sources without visible fire or smoke. Fans were deployed and windows and doors opened to ventilate the building. Several apartments were checked, with the carbon monoxide reading isolated to one apartment on the second floor. No other heat sources or leaks were found.
Audio|Source: Tompkins County Fire/EMS
05:31
Transcript:
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Meeting 705E Seneca, medium-sized, multi-un, residential, three-story.
00:06
Nothing shown will be investigating the XRPeter.
00:13
Copy, Injitu, you are on scene, you've got nothing shown condition, you will be investigating. 6-3 is also in, 6-3 will be Seneca Street Command[1], top sign, TACA, on arrival.
00:25
Injitu, have you pulled past or did you stop short?
00:32
We're past it.
00:36
Copy, past it.
00:39
Truck 1, you can take this intersection or just stand by for now, comfortably.
00:46
Truck 1, copy, standing by.
00:49
Dr.C.
00:53
152.
00:55
Okay.
00:58
Clear CEMC available.
01:01
All right.
01:07
Command[1] engine two.
01:10
Engine two.
01:17
We're showing about 300 parts per million on our meter.
01:24
We're going to shut the gas off at the stove.
01:28
The stove doesn't appear to have been left on and we'll look around for other potential sources.
01:36
All right, copy that. It's 300 parts per million at this point. You're going to start shutting gas down. Truck one, let's gear up.
01:44
Let's go ahead and on deck off the side just to support interior operations. Engine 3,
01:49
963.
01:53
Go ahead, 63. We're coming down, Seneca right now.
02:03
Do you want us to gear up, get in, or just stay level one, stage two?
02:10
Good state level one, I just wanted you on Seneca.
02:17
Truck one, moving up.
02:23
Can we end engine two.
02:26
Engine two.
02:30
We're working on getting some natural ventilation going. We've got the gas shut off as a stove.
02:36
The only other heat in the apartment is radiators, so there's no other sources in the apartment. We should get in the apartment underneath it and outside as well.
02:48
Yeah, I concur.
02:50
We're going to get into this entire building. Truck 1 is geared up right now to come up and assist with interior operations.
02:58
Yeah, go ahead and get windows, doors open wherever you can, get that natural ventilation.
03:04
And then I'm curious to know if these numbers are going to drop down or if there's another source that's leaking.
03:16
Natural ventilation prior to our arrival, which may explain why it's heavier in the bathroom versus the kitchen.
03:25
The natural ventilation hadn't gotten back there. But yeah, we'll go downstairs and check down there. Probably we'll need a fan up here to get it fully cleaned out.
03:34
All right, copy that. Truck one's walking up the hill right now. They're going to grab you a fan.
03:45
Engine 2, come in.
03:48
Engine 2 on, go ahead.
03:51
Mike,
03:52
what's the location of Apartment 3?
03:56
It's on floor to go right through the door on the Alpha side and up the stairs.
04:04
Copy. Apartment 3 is on floor 2, access off of Alpha Sun.
04:15
Apartment 2 is clear.
04:18
Copy, Apartment 2, all clear.
04:23
And how many total apartments in this structure?
04:31
They're reporting 7 total.
04:33
We have apartments 2, 3 and 4 right here.
04:38
Copy. So two, three, four, on floor two, you're going to check all those.
04:44
And then, yeah, let's continue and pop.
04:46
Assum there's that third floor there, we're going to want to get eyes on that as well and get a meter.
04:56
Command[1] and do if you can repeat your last.
05:02
Yeah, it's just confirming Department 2, Dream 4 on floor 2.
05:06
We're going to want to go up to that third floor there, assuming there's apartments up there as well.
05:13
That's the affirmative. I'm up on floor three right now. That's what apartment four is.
05:18
There's no readings on the meter up here.
05:22
Okay, good to hear. So maybe we are isolated to apartment three.
05:26
Be advised, truck one's got two fans ready to go when you're ready.
Police codes explained
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[1]
Command: Incident Command established/command unit speaking
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Location mentioned:
Near E Seneca St, Ithaca, NY 14850
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