Fire units respond to gas odor near Castleton Dr, Kettering MD
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, fire department responded to a possible gas odor near Castleton Drive in a single-family home. Units shut off the gas valve, ventilated the house, and confirmed no visible fire was present.
Audio|Heard on: Prince George's MD Fire-Tac Group Calls
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01:42
Transcript:
00:00
The number (number withheld) and forty-six Castleton Drive, off Joyston Drive.
00:05
International Gas in the resident box area (number withheld).
00:08
Paramedic Engine 800 and forty-six, Engine 806 , Truck 802 , Battalion Chief 800 and eighty-one.
00:12
So I respond eight off eleven at 800 and forty-eight.
00:16
Battalion Chief 800 and eighty-one, two engines in a truck, three in some stash.
00:19
That's what we're going to call four personnel each.
00:21
I am okay, thank you.
00:23
Paramedic Engine 400 and sixty-five is coming for the stove in the kitchen.
00:27
Copy.
00:31
Paramedic MJ 46, gonna be staging at 42 Castleton Drive.
00:38
All right, I'm staged at 42 Castleton.
00:40
Engine 86?
00:42
Okay, thank you.
00:44
Paramedic MJ 46 on scene.
00:46
Two-story,
00:47
slow level single-family home.
00:49
Nothing evident.
00:50
All tactical for men and all units.
00:53
Level two stage in line of approach at 40 Castleton Drive.
00:55
Go ahead. Yeah, I'm going to see if Paramedic MJ 46 is tactical man.
00:59
Side off, we got a two-story single-family home operating on themselves.
01:03
All units coming in level two, lot of approach.
01:06
866.
01:07
Tactical communications.
01:09
We have an odor,
01:10
isolated to the stove, shutting the gas valve.
01:13
We've got an odor coming from the stove, shutting the gas down.
01:17
And I believe Washington Gas has been notified.
01:21
County Chief 881, I'm on scene, I'll assume command.
01:25
County Chief 81, assume command at 844.
01:28
46 to command.
01:30
Command by.
01:31
We shut the gas off to the stove, our opening windows and doors are now to ventilate.
01:35
We'll let you know if the readings go down.
01:37
Initial reading's just 300.
01:39
I copy. Do you want the truck to help ventilate?
Disclaimer:
This transcript is automatically generated by AI from live dispatch audio. Dispatch communications may include background noise, overlapping speakers, or rapidly evolving situations, and automated transcription may not capture all details or context.
Location mentioned:
Castleton Dr, Kettering, MD 20774
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