Gaslike odor prompts fire check at Fairfax apartment, Fairfax County VA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a gaslike odor reported in an apartment building near Mansardi in Fairfax County. They checked multiple floors but detected no gas or hazardous materials. The smell was likely from construction chemicals such as glue or acetone. No fire, danger, or injuries were found.
Audio|Source: Fairfax County Fire and Rescue
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Transcript:
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Measure 303 for Metro 6th. You'll ride first, so I take the first to us out.
00:08
Battalion 403, engine 303.
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We will have our own water. We're staging back to the intersection where we can handjack as needed.
00:21
Battalion 403 is right.
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I'm a scene. I'll assume command behind your engine.
00:30
Here, Perks, copy. The 8th and 23.
00:35
China 3 is in Power 36.
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It's actually to be near Mansardi, it's the first building on the left side here.
00:46
Reported caller says they can smell it at the entrance and then stronger odor on the second floor. We just made it to the entrance, checking for readings now.
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I'll give you a floor labeling in a minute.
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Come here, it's right. Measure 4.303 is on the way in, see you now.
01:06
Engine 404 is on the way in C&F. Engine 404 is on the street.
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Before, you can leave the driver at the rig and go in to assist.
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Edge 4 is dark.
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Medi 4 is direct.
01:31
All units are all units operating on fire ground.
01:35
I'm going to call side alpha, side of the side where engine 303 is currently located.
01:43
It's near Mansardi.
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Go it, Tara.
01:53
Label them 123, 4-5.
01:55
Engine 303 is checking out 4-1. There's no odor there. We moved up to floor 2.
02:00
No odor up here. There is construction of floor 1 with an odor of...
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...pacetone or glue for flooring.
02:19
Command from Towers, Towers.
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We walked up to three as well, clear that.
02:23
I got nothing on one, two, or three.
02:30
Commandress, right.
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We've been able to talk, too, they're calling themselves.
02:39
I mean, she let us in the building.
02:41
Reported it inside here where we entered.
02:43
Had a stink smell on 4-1, it was stronger on 4-2.
02:46
Ambulance 444 in Florida's care that's not updating.
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104.
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Tower 436 driver from command.
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If you can hold up traffic down there, Angie 4 is going to work his way down to you.
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And it's your 404 from command.
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Call number two was the main concern. I'm up here with her.
03:23
We have no odor.
03:25
We've walked the whole entire footprint under the number two floor. We're not getting any readings.
03:31
She's stating she believes that she still smells what's gas, but we're not what's spelling anything cheap and no detections of any type of natural gas on this floor.
03:43
Be comfortable calling good intent call,
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hoaring yourself in Tower 436.
03:53
Yeah, um,
03:55
you could go ahead and just take, you know,
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over for Bravo and
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Command's, right. Also be advised. Your radio is cutting in and out.
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Toulada 436, you direct.
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Affirmative.
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Been from Fairfax.
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Go ahead, Fairfax.
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I'll need the channel.
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That's the good, Fairfax.
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We're going to go ahead and hold Engine 404, Tower Latter 436,
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possible a bit in 10 call. We can go ahead and release the rest of the units from release channel.
04:40
Direct, holding engine 404 at Tower 436.
04:43
All the units can go on services ready and switch channel traffic back to Channel 4Bromo, channel 41, not clear.
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