Gas odor detected in school classroom HVAC unit, Danbury CT
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a gas odor detected in a classroom at a school on Middle St, Danbury. The issue was isolated to an HVAC unit with elevated gas readings. All other floors had no gas readings. Students were relocated to the gym for safety while waiting for the gas company to investigate. No fire or explosion occurred. Maintenance and gas company teams worked to ventilate the area and address the issue safely.
Audio|Source: Danbury Fire HQ
08:23
Transcript:
00:00
Grab the principal there, Dr. (name withheld). Just see if you can get a maintenance guy here or HVAC guy or something.
00:06
Yeah,
00:09
he has him coming.
00:12
Very well.
00:16
We're going to set this fan up, guys.
00:26
Command is going to be terminated. EMS and PD are remain on-team. 23 is in service.
00:30
We're going to head to headquarters and cover.
00:34
Proceed 23, back service.
00:41
23, good moves. We're going to be here a little bit.
00:54
All right, fans running up at stairwell.
00:58
Can you guys make sure that door is open at the top of the stairs?
01:26
Okay, can you find the gas meters down here if they're actually here?
02:01
The gas is here on the sky's not here yet, we're going on that resource.
02:10
What is this gas feed? Is it a science room?
02:16
It's a math room, and it's not an air here here, but I don't see any gas to the air handler,
02:23
but I do see, and I did turn on.
02:28
I don't know what it goes to do.
02:32
All right, let's see if daddy shut it off, see if the fan airs it out and we start to reduce readings.
02:39
We'll wait for our source and the maintenance guy when you get there.
02:48
Dispatch Main Street command.
02:57
At this time we have it isolated to a classroom on the third floor, all other floors negative readings.
03:04
We're just waiting for ever-sourced gas and we are venting at this time.
03:22
Go ahead.
03:25
You've got to say, you're going to make sense.
03:28
You have to get to go. You've got to come up somewhere.
03:40
Maybe they're back. I don't even know.
03:57
Some of these schools have gas speeds across the roof from wherever it starts out.
04:02
Babsie, were there gas lines up there?
04:09
Yeah, there's no...
04:12
Yeah, when I crossed the roof.
04:13
I don't know where I went into the roof, but there is no odor or any sort of sort.
04:18
Yeah, no, I'm... Like the, some of the new schools have the gas lines go across the roof and then down and then...
04:32
The principal might have thought that the meters were on your side there.
04:38
So I guess it would be Charlie.
04:47
We're looking.
05:00
We found an air handler in a wall.
05:04
Here's to have a gas tunnel.
05:06
We're going to shut that up.
05:09
Odour in a closet, too.
05:12
That is where the highest readings were.
05:16
All right, good work.
05:18
Still waiting ever source.
05:23
Does someone outside have a bottle of water to see where the leaf may be coming from?
05:36
The gas meters are on the other building, let's call it,
05:43
Bravo,
05:45
of the other building.
05:52
Uh,
05:53
22, come in.
05:59
Why do I like somebody to go over to the other side of school and meet her the gym area so we can get these kids sheltered?
06:09
Okay, we're in that side.
06:11
We'll find the way we're going to get them.
06:15
We can make sure that the gym is safe. We'll meet that a refuge.
06:30
Drac acid. I got that soapy water for you.
06:42
All right, I'm just coming out to go grab it where the fans are set up.
07:00
Okay,
07:05
all hands. We're gonna, uh, Emersonorsors is just pulling up.
07:08
Somebody, uh, Batsy, lead him in.
07:11
And Batsy, go over, or Greg, can you go over to the kids over there and tell him they can all go in the gym?
07:18
Oh, there's six.
07:20
They're all right. Yeah, I'll go, guys.
07:27
May Street Command to dispatch Eversource Sunseen.
07:32
The Force Sunseen.
07:36
Main Street Command to dispatch,
07:45
we're have this confined to the middle school side. We're moving all the kids into the gym as an area of a refuge for now.
07:53
Receipts, moving all children to the gym.
08:02
Drop to the car.
08:09
We will be isolated it to a bad HBAT unit.
08:14
Not firing,
08:16
but we ended over to Eversource when you get up here.
08:21
Sure, Eversource is walking through the door.
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Location mentioned:
Middle St, Danbury, CT 06810
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