Natural gas leak causes closure and vehicle fire in Princeton, Princeton TX


Emergency crews responded to a natural gas leak near McGee and Brown Street intersection in Princeton. The leak caused closure of Office 3 and monitoring or evacuation of nearby businesses including strip malls and an auto shop. A black pickup truck was reported with a fire in its bed, and two men were seen throwing items into nearby water.
Audio|Source: Collin County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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At the intersection of McGee and Brown Street, and we're having a zero read here.
00:04
Please, if you would please just monitor the two strip malls across the street from us.
00:10
Make sure we have everybody out of there, nobody's going in.
00:13
Receive, mine train the strip malls.
00:14
720 status 911[1] to 7916 locked the two lanes in our turning lanes and we'll have them turn either northbound or southbound off east
00:26
Victor George Henry 4823, Hector, George Henry 4823, Hackberry and Cedar Canyon.
00:31
What was your cost with Hackberry?
00:32
Cedar Canyon.
00:33
104.
00:34
Okay. 104. 709-11 to 16.
00:36
Will you got an officer with me?
00:37
Calling County all units.
00:38
Off 3 is closed for Princeton.
00:39
Off 3 is closed.
00:40
Dean. Princeton Office 3 is going to be closed for Princeton for the gas leak.
00:43
Princeton command from Engine 4.
00:45
Responding to the gas leak near Listen Drive.
00:48
You're an assignment for us on arrival.
00:49
I don't need you at the gas leak.
00:51
I need you to pull in at Station 3.
00:55
Respond to calls for truck 3, tack 1, and your response just to coordinate with Quint 2.
01:03
Here you see, backfill station three run calls for busy units.
01:07
Command, this is engine two.
01:09
Engine two, go ahead.
01:10
Yes, so we just cleared that med call.
01:12
You want us just to return the station or you guys need any assistance with anything?
01:15
No, you guys go ahead and stay at your station, truck three, pack long, are going to be tied up with this incident for a while.
01:22
I need to coordinate with engine four to take tolls for both all four districts.
01:27
Preceived, we will.
01:28
It looks like we will be getting a toned out station force district for a vehicle fire here momentarily.
01:35
Really, see.
01:36
Command. Okay, go ahead.
01:37
Hey, I'm getting reports of the snow and natural gas in the auto shop over here.
01:42
Do we need to evacuate or at least monitor?
01:43
Where at?
01:44
Express AutoCare to the west from my location.
01:46
Go check the levels and let's see what we got.
01:50
Be safe.
01:51
We'll see if you tell you, anyone.
01:55
If you could just a SNFPD and try to keep that intersection shut down so that we can keep a limited amount of traffic coming eastbound on 380.
02:04
See eastbound shutdown?
02:06
Yes, sir.
02:07
Browning from Engine 2, could you repeat traffic, please? There'll be a black pickup with fire in the bed.
02:13
There's also two males there throwing things into the water.
02:15
Agent 2 received a second.
02:16
Thank you. Receive.
02:18
We advise ADMIS, advise that the tech on crew, with ADMIS needs to contact their gate crew.
02:24
The ADMIS individual I talked to is not able to call their crew.
02:28
The ADMIS, individual I talked to on the phone, advise the ADMIS Tech on scene in your location.
02:34
We'll need to contact their gate crew.
02:36
To come out, he said that he would know how to contact them.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
911: Emergency/Medical Emergency
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Location mentioned:
W Brown St & McGee St, Princeton, TX 75407
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