Natural gas odor at high school linked to maintenance work, Waltham MA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, a natural gas odor was detected at a high school near Lexington St. The odor and an activated duct detector appeared to be caused by maintenance work on a rooftop air handling unit. The system was reset and all units were cleared from the scene.
Audio|Heard on: Waltham Fire
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03:33
Transcript:
00:00
Tower 100 to command.
00:04
Command answering.
00:08
Yeah, we're investigating a reported slight odor of natural gas.
00:11
No smoke up here.
00:14
All right, I have that.
00:17
Is it around a specific air handling unit or anything?
00:25
It's a very general area.
00:27
We are next to a couple rooftop units now though.
00:31
And I have the.
00:40
Tower, come in.
00:44
Command answering.
00:47
Yeah, I'm one of the directional facilities up here.
00:49
Yeah, I take the natural gas odor as a coincidence.
00:51
It's an ongoing thing from my relief up here.
00:54
I do have the contractor that's working on the air handler.
00:58
We're going to see if it lines up with the activated detector in the duct.
01:04
Right, I have that.
01:08
C200.
01:16
This is C200 command.
01:21
Go ahead.
01:27
Can you check the PL office, unit 8?
01:33
Repeat that.
01:36
Can you check the panel and see if it's unit eight?
01:47
Or what device it is on the panel.
01:59
Stand by.
02:08
Command to C200.
02:11
Go ahead.
02:13
This was indicating a duct detector by that room.
02:18
System's since been reset.
02:22
Received.
02:29
Tower 100 to command.
02:32
Go ahead.
02:36
Yeah, maintenance is working on unit eight.
02:38
Rooftop unit eight that's directly above room 2153 where the duct detector activation is.
02:44
Please, when he kicks the wheel, maybe put some dust down there.
02:48
All right, we have that.
02:49
They've done a system reset.
02:51
So if that unit's fine,
02:53
they can continue along.
02:54
But if they need to shut that one down and figure it out after, that's fine too.
03:00
All right, we have that.
03:01
We'll relay and head down.
03:06
High school command to all, ma'am.
03:09
High school, come on.
03:11
We believe this was set off by workmen.
03:15
High school is resetting the system.
03:17
We can put the all out in this box,
03:20
terminate man companies to quarters.
03:24
Believed to be activated by workmen on scene.
03:27
High school is on scene to handle the reset.
03:29
All out, Box 3415 companies to quarters 1127.
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Location mentioned:
Lexington St, Waltham, MA 02452
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