Gas leak from pierced line causes road closure near Sunrise Ln, Middlebury IN


Emergency crews responded to a gas leak caused by a pierced gas line near Sunrise Lane in Middlebury. The leak caused a loud hissing sound and led to a full road closure for safety. Crews checked nearby houses and found no one home. The gas line will likely need to be cut to stop the leak.
Audio|Source: Elkhart, Goshen & Elkhart County Police, Fire & EMS
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Transcript:
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24. Can't any fire? 429.
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We're going to be on scene.
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10 fire. 461, go ahead and block 10 row 3 and 5.
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Okay. Up there, 442.
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442.
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I get the next 77 for Hummer H-3.
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492. Go down the County Road 2 and come in from the north.
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10-4[1], is that owner's request?
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Copy.
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Yeah. Any farmers, can you figure out if her paying with cash card and where too?
00:27
County Fire.
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429 is going to establish Kindero 3 command.
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Be advised we do have a very loud hiss at this time.
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10-4[1]. 10-4-191.
00:36
I have attempted to call that number.
00:38
It goes to voicemail me today.
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Dispatch 450.
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You'll be on see.
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458. 448. 10-4[1].
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461, go ahead and pull forward a little bit so that 58 can get at least off a kind of 5.
00:47
Dispatch Middle Bear unit, time of signal 76 en route, (number withheld) Sunrise Lane for a 70-year-old female conscious breathing sick.
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61, yep, there you go, block the whole road.
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615 is clear.
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Time for. We'll be at Maine and Pioria.
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One MN.P. We'll get a main impioria.
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One MN.P. This is actually one unit.
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Do you want a fire ground? At this time, yes, I should ask Warren B, I go into sign this one.
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Go to FireGron 1.
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Where else are you? This measurement will vary, single 7d6 for high blood pressure.
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One hundred one, quite available.
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One ninety one. One.
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613, signal 59 by signal 6.
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10-4[1].
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This is Ash Middlebury, signal 76 for high blood pressure, Tuesday, (number withheld) Sunrise Lane, west off Maine on the north side, 7-year-old female conscious breathing.
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Blood pressure is going to be 252 over 117, having nausea and headache.
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7366-6-6-6-mach-1076 with 3-7-331.
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Time for.
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3113, 360, 6, single 9, signal 8, 8, 3.
01:39
7.6, station, 7.4.
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Alcat, 442.
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442. They have to have a card.
01:42
It's going to be somewhere local here in Elkhart, but there's a language barrier, so...
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She's a... about five minutes away.
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Or else, you don't know if you can hear from there, but we do have an active gas leak.
01:53
It does look like they did pierce roughly halfway through that gas line.
01:58
That is right by here by this cone in front of me.
02:00
10.4.
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Claire, what's you need to me? I'll be back here with 58.
02:03
Clear, I got John check in this house and see if anybody's home, so it'll probably have to cut the gas line to that.
02:08
Doesn't appear to be anybody at home.
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492, the 10 Rotary Command[2].
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Medic 15, putting in a 4, 1036.
02:13
Thank you. 92, just go ahead and pull up here, just before the ambulance and just blocked the whole roadway.
02:21
Copy. Before the ambulance, blocked the entire roadway.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment/Message received
[2]
Command: Incident command established
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Location mentioned:
Near Sunrise Ln, Middlebury, IN 46540
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