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Strong smell of propane investigated at bel air shopping centerBel Air MD

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audio iconFire & Arson
Belair Rd Ste F, Bel Air, MD 21014

As discussed during the dispatch call, units responded to reports of a strong propane gas odor in the parking lot and inside and outside buildings near a vacant Joanne's store in a shopping center near Bel Air Road. The source of the gas smell is under investigation.

Audio|Heard on: Harford County Fire and EMS
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02:56
Transcript:
00:00
1013 and Tower 3.
00:02
Caller is at T.J. Maxx.
00:05
Max.
00:06
They're advising that the whole parking lot smells like propane and a heavy gas smell.
00:11
With that they think it could be coming from the vacant Joanne's building.
00:19
They're saying they can smell it both inside and outside of the buildings at that location.
00:32
155 arrives 850.
00:39
313 tire 313 tower 3 were a rock one store strip to investigate 313 I'll be established the Bel Air Road command.
00:50
Company three units both arrived 313 with the command and 852.
00:56
Is there such a command?
00:59
Got.
01:01
Are any of the personnel on your unit or Tower 3 aware of the call that came in at the same complex for Ulsa yesterday for the gas leak outside?
01:11
A bunch of us that were there yesterday are here today.
01:25
Northeast.
01:27
We got it over here in all of us.
01:32
Okay.
01:33
Dyrr if you might set up and go, we're ready to check that again.
01:37
At LT.
01:43
Dan, where you call them, 13?
01:47
Okay.
01:48
Negative.
01:51
Okay.
01:57
An investigation.
02:01
I have control location.
02:06
I'm going to take trial aside of the altar.
02:12
There go. Do you mind let me in the all both of that?
02:25
to touch the other road command your caller for this was anonymous and did not provide (number withheld) wonderful thank you.
02:47
Pro command of this.
02:48
You see if you have a contact for the new boss, this kind of furniture, going in here?
02:54
They got a lockbox from the outside, but I don't think it's good.

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Belair Rd Ste F, Bel Air, MD 21014
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