Hazardous material incident with chlorine slurry container, Pittsburgh PA
Fire & ArsonFire crews respond to a hazardous materials incident involving a container with chlorine and slurry. The box is being cooled with no leakage detected. Fire alarms were triggered due to smoke, but no fire has spread beyond the box.
Audio|Source: Pittsburgh Fire Ground 2
06:23
Transcript:
00:00
Three engine then. Three then. Dispatch from command, if you want to, might want to start an investigator, please.
00:17
I'm in between the Penn and I'll stand along the river. You can take Tracy Street, go Preble, make a left on to Tracy Street, and there is a couple watts. You'll see all of our rigs there.
00:35
Flurry is also mixed in with chlorine. I'm not sure if anything got out of the VATI containment air. We are cooling the Connix box down. I just wanted you guys just take it going just in case. Copy chlorine and slurry. We can get that sort. Be there a little bit. Stage on Tracy Street, okay?
01:02
So you have to watch. Thank you. Thank you. Mark, are you on the Penn side? Because I want you to go into Alka, and Tracy Street goes to the other side of Alcatan. Hey, Rich, I'm right behind you.
01:27
Dispatch, Matt.
01:28
Go ahead.
01:29
Do you need police or EMS?
01:30
We do not need the antibiotics.
01:32
We are good.
01:33
Uh, no, we don't need police. That's a C.
01:34
Dispatch, BC5.
01:35
Dispatch, BC5.
01:36
DC-5. Yeah, I'm going to hit the SIM command here.
01:40
CC-MILB operations.
01:42
What we have is a context box.
01:43
We don't know the exact amount that there's some kind of mixture of chlorine and flurry.
01:47
There was slight, uh,
01:49
slam and pinchment.
01:50
The picture has knocked that down and what they're currently doing now is cooling the box down.
01:55
There's no leakage at this time.
01:56
Uh, I'll keep you updated further.
01:59
That's received.
02:00
I have correct box with a mix of chlorine flurry currently calling the box down, no leakage at this time.
02:09
Yeah, as well dispatch, you can return the second truck at Hillary's.
02:13
That's received.
02:14
Attentional companies within 114.
02:16
You know, still take a disregard.
02:19
Again, attentional companies for them 114, take it...
02:22
The auxiliaries in the second truck can take a disbar.
02:25
1556. 1556.
02:26
I'm getting fire alarms coming in from 3126 Preble that'll be at Alka San.
02:32
Do you believe this will be one in the same? It's coming from Park & Garage 2 and 3.
02:37
I don't know how thick smoke is down there if they could set it off or not.
02:41
Yeah, just about they can reset that that smoke from this fire.
02:46
There's no azic up that way.
02:47
Atchers, they can.
02:49
Asthma 3 from 37, is it?
02:52
Good. As Matt, if you come down, Tracy, there's an out-compan employee directing traffic.
02:57
You're run down.
02:58
We're able to get through here.
02:59
It's probably going to be as close as you can get to the incident.
03:02
Okay, thank you.
03:03
Mr. President, you can put the deputy on, thank you.
03:04
Copy.
03:05
Dispatch, three engines on scene, reporting the command.
03:08
Copy.
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Location mentioned:
Preble Ave & Tracy St, Pittsburgh, PA 15233
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