Gas leak causes evacuation and street closures in Maryland, Washington County MD
Fire & ArsonEmergency responders are addressing a gas leak near Marshall St in Maryland. The leak has caused evacuation of residences in the 300 block and closure of nearby streets. Some residents are refusing to evacuate, leading to requests for police assistance. Columbia Gas is monitoring the situation and believes certain areas can shelter in place while crews work to resolve the leak. Efforts continue to clear streets and ensure public safety.
Audio|Source: Washington County Fire and EMS - Digital
06:11
Transcript:
00:00
If you start here, the battalion car of the 300 block, and work your way up and evacuate the west side of the street.
00:07
Okay. Engine 4th03 McDonnellan having shut down the intersection.
00:10
Command engine four.
00:12
Commandion four.
00:13
I don't expect what to call me.
00:19
If we have any readings in 339, or are we dealing with everything outside?
00:24
Per Columbia Gas, everything is outside right now.
00:27
They pop the water meter access and they have 100% saturation in the water, so they're probing right now and inspecting more.
00:35
Command from Engine 1.
00:37
Okay, one. Do you want us to send our manpower up to help with evacuations?
00:47
That's correct, made up with the engine four once you have Hammondshire down.
00:52
You guys can work on the east side of the 300 block.
00:55
Okay.
00:56
Command, engine four.
00:57
Engine four?
00:58
Where did you start and where have you gone as far as evacuation and do you have people moving back behind your engine?
01:06
Three, Ligonore.
01:08
We moved up to Marshall Street with evacuations on the west side of Lingenor.
01:14
We have the street closed down at Marshall and Lingenor.
01:19
Okay, truck four is going to evacuate the west side from 339 down to the battalion car and have people move behind us.
01:30
Engine 1 is going to have the east side of the street and have their evacuees come down here to the battalion car.
01:40
Engine 4, copy.
01:42
We're probably going to need HPD because the first couple of people I've talked to are not too happy.
01:45
Okay, after doing a face-to-face, we call me a gas.
01:48
The house that we have already evacuated, we're going to leave them in check.
01:53
The Columbia Gas believes that we can shelter in place from the Italian vehicle south, and everything on Hammonds, we should be good at shelter in place.
02:03
I'm working on getting the people off the streets and the vehicles that we need to move.
02:06
We're working on that now.
02:07
Okay, so we can shelter in place other than the 300 block.
02:10
That's correct.
02:11
Okay, clean the washer.
02:13
Good.
02:14
Can you go ahead and start an HP officer this way? I'm sure we'll run into some problems.
02:18
Okay, we'll get uncertain.
02:19
Man, we've been two residents and they don't really want to comply.
02:23
Not surprised we'd know with this before.
02:26
Command Aide.
02:27
All right.
02:29
Can you check with one bigness and get some kind of ETA so we can have an idea of what we're dealing with here and let people know?
02:38
That's correct.
02:39
Also, 339, negative readings inside the house, Kirklandia, gosh.
02:43
And 3403 negative readings inside the structures.
02:48
I copy.
02:53
Come in it from the age.
02:55
Good.
02:56
It has a leak near down between 335 and 3.49.
03:02
All right.
03:04
They're hoping their ground crews here within the hour.
03:06
So we're going to be here for at least an hour.
03:08
Okay.
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Location mentioned:
Marshall St, Maryland 21740
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