Gas leak prompts evacuation of nearby homes


Emergency crews responded to a significant gas leak in a residential area, prompting the evacuation of homes within a 1,000-foot radius to ensure safety. Fire and gas companies coordinated to address the situation.
Audio|Source: Citrus County Fire
06:46
Transcript:
Copy that. Jim and the indebting around. 14th copy. Battalion 1 of Citrus. We all have to speak with the gas company. They're getting somebody out there. They respond out to 66 New Florida Avenue. Be off Fire Attack 1 references gas leak. 111. 104-on-Chi. Prevention 1, Citrus, can you put me on this gas line call? 10-4[1] prevention 1. Commandant Prevention 1. Commandant Prevention 1. Good. Yes, sir, if you could respond over to New Florida Ave, the address that should be in the screen. Get eyes over there for me. Come in back to Citrus. New Florida. Citrus, please. Yes, ma'am. Who's the power company that's at that location right there in that corner? They should be Duke, sir. Do you want me to call them? That's 104. It's right. I put underneath the power lines there. Yeah, about how far out are you, bud? We've got about eight minutes. Engine 5, are you coming from 4? We're coming up from training center. Copy that. Command Citrus, do you have a deputy that's in the area? Getting one in round. On to Engine 5, I'm going to be coming up on the 491, 486 intersection. Copy that, we're just on top of that intersection near there. Copy. Engine 3, command, attack one. Command engine 3, you guys can cancel your clamp. Engine three car please. A mile around the, I believe it was 66 new Florida a half a meeting. 104, putting you on the call. Command of Citrus. Command, go ahead. If I've got Engine 20, you can let Engine 5 go. Command back to Engine 5 and Prevention 1. I sure want to go ahead. I got Engine 20 behind me. Copy that. When you start coming up to that house location there, 66 New Florida Ave, just be advised us to a significant leak. Don't just drive up there to the corner of it. Copy, understood. Okay, move? Yeah. I would clear the houses that are within about of a thousand feet of it. Okay. Hey, engine 20, can you tell that guy that's doing tree work right there and that uses chainsaw? Came back in Prevention 1. Prevention 1, go ahead. Yeah, if you could approach the scene from like the west, you can come in from the north that most of it's going out to the east. Upie, I'm on South Harrison. Right now I'm going to have to turn around. I think we just told the tree guy. Hey, Angel 20, you want to back out. We're going to go down to the west to approach us. The fumes are going east. I was the battalion one. We're... On team with 20 and Provincial 1. Do you want us to assist them with evacuation? That's negative. You guys can go available. I'll have deputies and then go around. Copy that. Prevention 1 command. We do not have any smell of propane or any natural gas or any gas in the area of South Harrison, we can come around to the west, approach it that way, see what we can spell. Copy, if you come down South Monroe Street, we're dead in the flag. That's fine right on the house. What's doing? Reference the, do you want everyone within a mile radius? to evacuate their homes or just within that 1,000 feet? Evacuate 1,000 feet from the house that I gave you. The rest can avoid the air. 10-4. 20 citrus. We're clear and available citrus cells. Just you have a something.
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10-4: Acknowledgement/Message Received
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Location mentioned:
Near New Florida Ave, Beverly Hills, FL 34465
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