Construction crew causes minor gas leak near e Broadway, Mesa AZ
Fire & ArsonA construction crew accidentally broke a small natural gas line near lot 37 on East Broadway, causing a minor gas leak. Emergency responders evacuated workers and set up a safety zone while the gas company worked to clamp the leak and secure the area.
Audio|Source: Mesa Fire, Gilbert Fire, Queen Creek Fire
06:51
Transcript:
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Riggs and Velvista with Arizona Paul Charles Adam 09 Nora 24
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Units en route to the 2 and 1 Natural Gas League, near East Broadway Unit 37 on Fire Channel B3[2].
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Mesa Gas is on scene.
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They possibly hit a gas line.
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There is a gas odor.
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The supervisor is asking for fire.
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They are trying to secure it at this time.
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Near Lot 37, that is all the information they were able to give us at this time.
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Ambulance respond code 3, 334, North Gilbert Road, Medical Response 202[5], and Medic 206[1].
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C-DEC 3 DELF,
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2654, East Northridge Street, Engine 208[3], C-DEC 3.
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I'll take that two-player charl at least.
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Ten-four.
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Adam, four, you can send us to me two on the weather.
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Time four. Edward, four to two ultra in that party zone.
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Ten-four. Engine 4. Sea Deck 4.
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Motor Vehicle Accident.
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East Queen Creek Road and South Eltsworth Loop Road.
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Engine 412[4].
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Seedex 4. Ladder 4.52.
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Sea Deck 12.
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Difficulty breathing.
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17119. East Hill Crest Drive.
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Ladder 4.52.
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Sea Deck 12. They really didn't give a specific location.
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You see where the flag is that, do you want us just go out and investigate?
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Yeah, if you can hold your position because we're a little mobile, we'll drive around and look for it.
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But yeah, it's clearly not where the flag is at right now, unless City of Mesa Gas is actually not here.
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Staying 204 to look. The Italian 204.
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We're on seeing where the flag is at.
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Can you check and see if there's an updated location? We're going to drive this park quickly and see if we can locate any sign of a possible gas leak or any kind of heartbeat somewhere there's nobody out or any excavation or anything going on at the flag location.
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Copy. I'll call them back right now.
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Engine 205.
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H205. Can you at least just walk up for that residence, make sure there's not something we're missing?
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That's permissive. I have a firefighter going forward to investigate.
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Engine 206, battalion 204.
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2026.
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We are on Los Australia, just south of you.
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We have City of Mesa, gas crews on scene.
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We'll go up and investigate.
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It looks like they just moved the flag there.
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We'll hit that direction.
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One respond.
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We're having our chance I'm certain.
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Icop, you want me to add engine 451.
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Engine 4.51.
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Sea Deck 12.
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Difficulty breathing.
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17119. East Hill Crest Drive.
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Engine 4.51.
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See deck 12.
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Axel Lane, District 20402, in 844-now-2.
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We're going to gather some information from them.
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I'm assigned engine 206.
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He'll be taking our site control for us.
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Alarm copies, Battalion 204 is on soon and will be assuming command.
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You have multiple city of Mesa gas units on the street.
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You're unable to see the hazard at this time.
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RP is coming to your window.
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Engine 206 will be assuming site control at 1304.
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Site control, command.
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Go ahead.
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We have a primary all clear in the area.
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All workers have been evacuated on split the city and Mesa representative.
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Asking and use our SBBA to help plant it off if you're good with that.
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That's affirmative. You said you got an all clear on the area.
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Is there any houses that we need to be evacuated?
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Boarding city and major reps not at this time they've evacuated all possible closure areas.
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They're just going to go around to clamps and clamp it off real quick using our SDBA.
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If you just maintain side control, create a limited access zone there so nobody else enters and you can share our packs with them.
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Copy that? E-DX-3.
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Tonight with City Mesa Caste Rep.
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It was a half-inch line that broke while they're working on it.
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Their flow returns and deucer activated so it's a very small leak at this point and they just need to clamp the line.
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So they're going to be able to handle it with our support.
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We're going to hold the safety position with a limited access zone at this point.
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We'll keep our hazmat unit income in code 2 and we can release it to 205.
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You've met with City of Mesa.
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It's a half-inch line that broke.
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It's a small leak and just needs to be clamped.
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We're going to hold the safety position with limited access zone.
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Keep our HAVMAT team responding.
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Engine 205 can go available at 1306.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
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Medic 206: Medical Emergency
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Fire Channel B3: Fire Department Channel
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Engine 208: Fire Unit Response
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Engine 412: Fire Unit Response
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Medical Response 202: Medical Emergency
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Location mentioned:
Near E Broadway Rd, Mesa, AZ 85204
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