Natural gas leak investigated near East Lawn Street, Oakland CA
Fire & ArsonEmergency units responded to a natural gas leak near East Lawn Street and 68th Avenue in Oakland. Multiple fire units investigated a strong smell of natural gas detected in the area. The odor was also noticed at the station but later seemed to dissipate. Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) was confirmed to be responding to the scene. Units continue to monitor the situation to ensure safety.
Audio|Source: Oakland Fire Department
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Transcript:
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Engine 18, truck 7.
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Hazmat incident, natural gas shutoffs.
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Near East Lawn Street.
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Truck 1618.
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Open 1,
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engine 29. Good 29.
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Affirming that the RP address is unit number (number withheld).
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That's affirmative.
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We're on scene. There is a strong smell of natural gas in the area,
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which we smelled at the station as well.
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I suspect that it's the same gas that's reaching to Eastline. But we're on scene investigating.
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I just want to fire copies. We'll show you on scene investigating.
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Anything is the truck six go, your traffic.
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Chris heads up. We're going to near Eastlawn. Sounds like there's just a big cloud lost in the area.
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Dispatch concern that these unions responding.
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Probably.
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Engine 29, this is Druxix.
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Okay. Okay.
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I have a lot of six.
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Okay. All right.
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We're trying with LTEs in the estimation of Sensor.
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Got it.
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All right.
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All right.
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We'll have to have a second.
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Everybody's all right.
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Can you simplify?
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Hello, French, hey team?
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We also have a net support at near 68th Avenue.
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Take break.
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And truck seven, would you go to that address on 68, we're on the 66 and these long now.
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We're ready.
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Copy that. Open the address again.
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Truck 7, the address is going to be near 68th Avenue.
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Hoken 1-29-29.
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24-9, go ahead.
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Confirming PG&E is responding to this incident?
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That's affirmative. We're still land wireways him up, give him updates.
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Copy.
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Copy. Hi, this is truck. So where did I say you see if you see if we only on three?
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Copy. We're coming out to, uh,
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I'll do a face-in-face with you, right now.
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Open 1, this engine 18. It looks like this is all the same incident, one-day cloud floating around.
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Do you use to test the channel and then put all four of us on that TAC channel?
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Our coffee.
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6, engine 29, and truck 6. Let's all go to TAC 2 so we can talk.
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No, the form of the TAC 2.
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Two.
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Two.
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Over here, we get a six to five and I got two moving up sixty-eight.
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I hope here, I'll call this.
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Over here, we did the smell, but it seems to have dissipated.
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The odor seems to be transit.
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This engine 18. I've got nothing on yeast long.
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I just saw you roll by. Let me know if you need a resource one. That's Gabe.
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Copy.
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68th Ave, Oakland, CA
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