Fire units investigate odor at environmental building, Durham NC
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire units investigated an odor at the environmental building on Fernway Avenue near Morreene Road. The odor was caused by a routine deep-freeze cleaning at the 200 building. The scene was cleared after confirming no hazard.
Audio|Heard on: Durham City Fire
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04:57
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 3 from under 1.
00:05
Spark at Rooney and Hunt and then you start working your way up.
00:17
Squad 1.
00:30
You know, I'll start up there at the top of the hill and go in there, go in that building,
00:34
where we usually go for the alarms and just look the way down.
00:38
Okay, go ahead.
00:39
Okay.
00:48
Butterfield also.
00:57
All right, the time I won't see.
01:00
Let's see, I'll go ahead and set the command post up at standby.
01:25
Agent 3 from May.
01:28
Thank you, Andre.
01:46
See you now.
01:53
You're on Ops 4 and Ops 3.
01:56
Squad 1, Spot 1B.
02:02
The battalion 1, I'll go ahead and establish remain.
02:05
Command Post to be, but right now it'll be Fernway Avenue and Morreene Road.
02:12
Squad 1, Squad 1B.
02:13
Squad 1B.
02:29
Communications from command.
02:35
Do you have a representative for water sewer come out in this area?
02:43
Command from engine 1.
02:53
Engine 13 from Inj 1.
03:01
4. 4.
03:07
Come on, boy.
03:08
2nd from engine 1. 2 man from engine 1.
03:12
All right, squad one or range one, whichever one wants to go first.
03:19
From 400 up the hill is clear.
03:30
Clear of command from squad one.
03:35
Small one standby.
03:37
What do we clear of pedestrians or any kind of abnormal atmospheric readings?
03:49
Hold on.
03:51
Everything in the buildings from 400 is clear inside.
03:54
All right, got it.
03:58
All right, squad one in.
04:05
The environmental building, they said they're doing a deep freeze cleaning at the 200 building and that this odor occurs every time they do it.
04:18
200 blocks.
04:24
I believe it's going to be Erwin Road address, but let me double check.
04:30
All right, copy that.
04:31
Hey, Angel Wong, can you just respond over the squad one? Let's confirm that and we can clear these units.
04:37
Yeah, I'm walking up behind them.
04:47
All right, Dan, we just spoke with someone over here.
04:49
He confirmed with Captain Knight.
04:52
So all units, you can clear the call, NBC, and communications you can cancel water sewer.
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Location mentioned:
Morreene Rd, Durham, NC 27705
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