Gas odor reported at McDonald's leads to evacuation, Wichita KS
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a reported gas odor at the McDonald's near East 21st Street in Wichita. Employees were evacuated as firefighters investigated with gas meters. The gas company was notified, but no fire or immediate hazard was found.
Audio|Heard on: Wichita and Sedgwick County Fire Resource / OPS-1
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04:15
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 18, truck 5 for a gas odor inside of a structure near East 21st Street north at McDonald's for a gas odor inside of a structure.
00:09
Engine 18, truck 5, your map, pages 60, 50, break.
00:13
Claw 2 for lines down, near South Florida, near South Flora for lines down.
00:19
Claw 2, your map, pages 5546.46.
00:39
T and truck five are out to the gas odor inside near East 21st Street north.
00:43
It's going to be the McDonald East at 21st in Rock calling party.
00:47
I advise there was a gas smell that started off small and got stronger.
00:51
Everybody's safe and out of danger.
00:52
They're about to step outside of the building.
00:54
The smell is going to be more in the back, past the kitchen and the manager office area.
00:58
This smell seems to be coming forward.
01:04
Will you test the license tone?
01:06
Station 22 for us.
01:10
The station here calling party advised a tree fell and knocked out her power.
01:14
The power line is on the ground and sparking.
01:17
Again, power lines are on the ground and sparking.
01:19
She specified in the backyard.
01:25
Two,
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five,
01:27
four, three,
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two,
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one,
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one,
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two,
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three, four,
01:34
five. Testing like can tell them at Station 22, it is 23, 46 hours.
01:42
Thank you, resource, our flags and tones work appropriately.
01:47
I'm welcome.
01:53
I see the gas company is on our alarm.
01:56
Have you notified them?
01:59
I'm going to call them right now for you guys.
02:01
Yeah,
02:05
thank you.
02:07
You're welcome.
02:13
We've got evacuation of the McDonald's employees.
02:16
Got nothing showing.
02:18
We're going to set up for suppression and truck five when you get here.
02:20
I'll let you run in there with the gas meters.
02:28
Intentine 4 engine 18 on scene with nothing showing and evacuation in process.
02:37
Off to truck five.
02:42
24-5, go ahead.
02:44
I called the gas company.
02:45
They're going to have to page somebody from home to get them to come in.
02:49
They don't have anybody just on call or on shift here tonight on third shift.
02:53
So they don't have an ETA, but they'll start calling them now.
02:59
10-4[1]. We'll run our meters through so we get, but I know the company would feel more at ease.
03:05
They responded as well.
03:07
All right. 10-4[1].
03:08
Thank you.
03:10
And Ops 2, Squad 2, I know you're on scene at that line's down call, near South Florida Avenue.
03:15
Calling party advised driving up the street, two houses down north is the calling party's address, so I'm not sure if that's where the calling party is going to be, I'm getting Evergie on the phone, too.
03:27
Squad 2 is 10-4[1], on-scene.
03:30
10-4[1], squad 2 on-scene.
03:36
Trash fire, near South Kansas, Station 11, Station 22.
03:50
The engine 11, engine 22 for a trash fire, near South Kansas for a trash fire, near South Kansas for a trash fire.
03:58
Engine 11, engine 22, your map page is 5644.
04:06
Now they're going to run it through for another minute.
04:08
I'm going to walk around and check the meters to the building and then we'll get the situation under control as long as we continue to stay zero.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment of message received and understood; affirmative response.
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Location mentioned:
E 21st St N, Wichita, KS 67206
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