Fire alarm and gas leak reported at Largo Middle School, Largo FL


At Largo Middle School near 8th Ave SE, a fire alarm was activated. Responders found no active fire but detected an odor in two classrooms and are investigating its source. Additionally, a gas leak was reported from the fuel pumps at the public works area nearby. There was no immediate danger observed, and authorities are monitoring the situation.
Audio|Source: Pinellas County Fire and EMS
06:29
Transcript:
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1257 glitz.
00:01
Confirm, relax, transvest release.
00:05
We can get someone to go to the fire alarm panel by the front desk just to come, um, just to come, um,
00:17
command of the squad 6-9.
00:22
Command, are you inhaling SWA 6-9?
00:26
That's affirmative.
00:30
We're cooling up on team right now.
00:34
Okay, command SWAC-9.
00:36
You're going to be close to you to the front office, and the principal's office, the fire alarm panel.
00:41
If you can make your way to the fire alarm panel and try to silence and secure that, please.
00:46
Copy y'all.
00:47
Thank you.
00:52
Negative, this was like a welfare check for the second-party caller, so caller's not unseen.
01:05
Information about the last time of the patient scene.
01:14
They spoke to him last night.
01:21
So we have room in front of the, in front of this portable unit here,
01:27
behind Swip-57, you can pull here.
01:34
District 69, come down.
01:38
Mr. 6-9, go ahead.
01:41
360 complete, nothing.
01:45
Back off. Back off.
01:50
Qualified 7 command.
01:53
First story is all clear.
01:56
We'll have to get a key to enter any of the classrooms.
01:59
No smoke or no smoke or no odor.
02:03
I understood.
02:06
Do you have any update on Division 2?
02:11
We've checked both AC handlers with nothing found.
02:14
We've isolated the strongest smell to two classrooms.
02:17
We're just checking the void space above the classrooms.
02:21
I'm confident at this time that we don't have any active fire.
02:23
We're just determining the source of the odor.
02:30
District 41.
02:33
I'm responding from City Hall.
02:36
Since the District 41 is fine from City Hall.
02:40
A 4-1 dispatch.
02:43
Check 4-1.
02:45
Show me, responding from Walmart 990, Missouri Road.
02:51
Check 4-1, responding from 990 Missouri Road.
02:52
Okay, 4-1, responding to 9-90 Missouri Road.
02:58
Airpress security.
03:03
Affirm, room 202, pole station.
03:10
Suspect engine 8, 10-minute timer.
03:17
Paraget Charlie, response to near 8th Ave SE, Largo Middle School for a gas leak.
03:27
The PD is unseen, SRO is unseen.
03:31
And they're requesting FBI at the Bus Circle,
03:34
a gas leak from Public Works.
03:36
Unknown exactly what happened.
03:39
No further information at this time.
03:47
Is PD needed?
03:50
That's a negative they can cancel.
03:54
Understud.
03:59
This is passed from Measure 4-1.
04:03
Measure 4-1.
04:06
Did they advise that this is going to be a gas leak from the fuel pumps or natural gas? Or what?
04:17
Standby.
04:19
Standby.
04:23
1042. Can you can say, please,
04:26
please, please.
04:30
Page 42, you're breaking up, can you repeat that?
04:36
Wait in the speed and direction,
04:38
please?
04:41
Understood.
04:46
Parasect Bravo, Rescue, Rescue 65, Paul, 1472 Dundee Drive.
04:51
Grit 132A, Rescue 65, FireTech, Bravo.
04:59
Dispatch 2004-1 on-seat in the area will be investigating.
05:02
We're going to have the road to public word shutdown.
05:09
Took 4-1, you're on team?
05:13
Negative.
05:14
Has anybody contacted ArgoPW to see if they're no of a gas leak?
05:21
Dispatch from engine 401.
05:22
Did you copy me on team?
05:25
Engine 401 is on team.
05:26
I do copy you.
05:27
No, they have both works.
05:29
I don't, has not been contacted as far as we know at the time.
05:37
District 41's on scene.
05:38
I'll have got to slayer command and accountability.
05:43
District 41's on scene, assuming command,
05:46
accountability.
05:52
Set off from construction, there's no fire problem.
05:58
Fuel pumps inside of public works, so we're going to have engine 4-1 pull up a little bit close.
06:09
Copy that engine, go ahead and VF8.
06:16
Agent 42, hitting a hydrant by the middle school in public.
06:23
4-1 to the second due engine.
06:25
It's going to be a hydrant that's going to be right next to where I'm going to have the engine park at.
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Location mentioned:
Near 8th Ave SE, Largo, FL 33771
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