Fire crews on rooftop investigating odor of natural gas from rooftop unit RTU1; heat systems shut down and source identified then secured., Merrimack NH
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews on rooftop investigating odor of natural gas from rooftop unit RTU1; heat systems shut down and source identified then secured.
Audio|Heard on: Merrimack Fire
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02:28
Transcript:
00:00
Rooftop to command.
00:05
We're not seeing anything obvious up here.
00:09
Everything seems to be cool, no smoke.
00:16
Freezer.
00:21
Rooftops to command.
00:24
Yes, God.
00:26
The only unit running is RTU1.
00:30
Everything else is cold.
00:34
We're safe. We're going to turn all beating systems on right now.
00:40
Topic. Greg,
00:46
you can probably bed to ladder.
00:47
You need to set up a parapet ladder to get access to this.
00:55
Okay,
01:01
man, did you activate all the heat?
01:07
We do have a small odor of natural gas up here,
01:13
trying to identify the source.
01:20
This is...
01:21
Command, can you shut down the heat, please? We think we identified as RTU 1.
01:27
We'll shut it down.
01:37
Command, a truck one.
01:42
Go ahead.
01:44
Be able to shut off that individual RTU up there.
01:51
We can shut the gas and the electric off to it, yes.
01:57
Here's me, thank you.
02:03
We've completely lost the odor, we don't know where this is coming from now.
02:11
Hey man, do you want us to shut off any units at the moment?
02:17
No, just the one that you think is bad.
02:24
RTU1 is shut off, gas is shut off as well.
02:28
Chris.
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