Generator exhaust causes carbon monoxide in home
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Loudoun VA Fire-Tac Group Calls
05:10
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00:00
We're on the scene.
00:01
Dry weight is approximately a thousand feet.
00:06
We're going to be about 300 ft away or 100 ft away.
00:13
Copy.
00:15
Dry weight is approximately a thousand feet.
00:18
We're parked 100 ft away.
00:21
All right, we're on the scene.
00:22
Two-story single family.
00:24
I'll be checking with the homeowner.
00:26
I'll go ahead and establish patient lead.
00:28
Coming in until you're around.
00:31
Copy. Two stories, single family.
00:33
You're at the homeowner.
00:35
Establish command upon arrival.
00:38
9602.
00:40
9602.
00:44
All incoming units, with the exception of tanker and engine 605 , stage at (number withheld)
00:55
Pacer Lane.
00:57
That's a call to stack.
00:58
All incoming units, five engine 605 and tanker 605 , stage at (number withheld) Pacer Lane, and a call to stack 0457 .
01:10
Thanks, 605 .
01:12
Go ahead, Chief.
01:14
Battalion 602 , come in.
01:18
Tank's half full.
01:21
Gonna check the generator now.
01:24
Copy, preparing tank half full.
01:26
I am on the scene of a hazardous incident.
01:29
Tanker in.
01:31
Battalion 602 , come in.
01:34
I am on the scene of a hazardous incident.
01:37
That alpha, we have a tanker.
01:41
Thanks, Chief.
01:42
Six hundred and fifty-one, correct.
01:43
Zero 500 . Six hundred and 40 is off the stage.
01:49
Engine six, one tanker.
01:53
Six hundred and five from command.
01:55
Go ahead.
01:57
Do you have your initial meter readings around the propane tank and the generator?
02:04
Around the propane tank.
02:06
They were all zero 20.9 .
02:09
I'll get you one right now on the generator.
02:12
Copy.
02:15
Do you have any further manpower? Oh yeah, if we could go ahead and send somebody up to check the house, that'd be great.
02:27
Readings around the generator are.
02:47
Truck 06:27 , man.
02:49
Could you bring your crew up to the 1st house?
03:05
I would suggest to walk up here because it's really tight getting the truck up in here.
03:14
Okay, Chief.
03:15
The readings around the generator are triple zero, and then 20.9 oxygen.
03:28
Gonna check the back door of the house.
03:32
Copy triple 0249 .
03:35
I have a truck walking up this way to help you out.
03:41
Command from engine 605 .
03:44
I believe once the truck gets inside and goes towards the basement, that they might get a reading in the basement.
03:53
I believe it's going to be coming from the generator exhaust because it's pointing directly to the house.
04:01
Copy .
04:04
Truck 620, when you arrive, reported to the person around that corner.
04:11
I'm direct with a person in driveway now.
04:14
Coming in from engine 605.
04:18
Once we approach the door, you got zero H2S,
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zero LEL, and the CO bumps up to 90.
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And then 20.7 on the oxygen.
04:34
I believe it's definitely the exhaust from the generator.
04:40
I'm gonna go ahead and instruct the homeowner to turn this thing off.
04:46
Copy.
04:48
Zero eight two, zero LEO.
04:52
Ninety on CO, 20.7 on unit two.
04:55
Yeah, I'll have him fill the generator.
04:58
Pacer Lane, come in from Loudoun.
04:59
You are 10 min into your incident.
05:02
Copy, 10 min into the incident.
05:05
Cruiser in investigative mode.
05:08
For odor, for odor gas and all.
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