No gas leak found after natural gas smell at school, Des Moines IA
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a strong natural gas smell reported at Walnut Street School. The building was evacuated and searched inside and outside, including a nearby alley where construction was happening. No gas leak or hazard was found. Students were safely relocated to another location nearby.
Audio|Source: Des Moines Fire/EMS
05:13
Transcript:
01:18
School Board's caller,
01:21
today I have a strong natural gas smell in the building and in the process of evacuating everybody.
01:27
901 Walnut.
01:29
We're on the phone with Mid-American now.
01:43
Did you have the PD officers on scene shut down Walnut force, please?
01:52
DC1's arrived.
01:53
You have multi-store commercial structure.
01:55
Nothing shown from the exterior.
01:57
DC1 will establish Walnut Street Command.
01:59
We do have evacuation going on.
02:01
Copy DC1 on scene.
02:03
Establishing Command.
03:15
Special Command, I've been advised by school security that everybody is, exit the building, all the kids have been accounted for.
03:24
All kids are out.
03:28
Kids have also been relocated to an alternative location.
03:34
I believe they're at 801 Walnut.
03:45
The freshman command, I've been advised that there's possibly a whole beam dug in the alley on that Charlie side of the school.
03:52
I'm going to have to investigate them.
04:00
And we're on the second floor where the smells are further coming from and we're not selling anything.
04:10
Command, copy.
04:11
Truck 1, Division 2.
04:14
Not getting any readings at this time.
04:21
Copy. We got nothing on the sniffer.
04:23
We're checking in the kitchen, see if there's a pile of light out or something, but we're not finding anything.
04:33
It sounds like there might be some construction going on in the alley behind the school, possibly by the air intakes.
04:41
We're investigating that now.
04:42
That could be our source.
04:52
The project in the alley on the Charlie side has been investigated.
04:56
It's just some work being done in a manhole.
04:57
There's a manhole.
04:58
There's no gas in that area and there's nobody digging, if anything.
05:08
Copy. The project in the alley is been investigated.
05:11
There's a manhole but no gas and no one digging.
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Location mentioned:
Near Walnut St, Des Moines, IA 50309
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