Possible gas leak prompts evacuation at Portland building, Portland OR
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, emergency responders investigated a possible gas leak at a multi-story residential building near Southeast Hawthorne Blvd Apartment 217 in Portland. The second floor was evacuated as a precaution but no gas readings or odors were detected on any floors. The situation was monitored and cleared without incident.
Audio|Heard on: Portland Area Fire and Rescue
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05:16
Transcript:
00:00
And dispatch, how did this call generate?
00:06
Dispatch the command looks like it came in from a MedTech on scene.
00:14
Dispatch the command, Northwest Natural has an ETA of 20 minutes.
00:18
20 minutes, copy.
00:29
You know what to see.
00:35
Near Southeast Hawthorne Blvd, Apartment 217.
00:37
Tucker Bob Swan at 1800.
00:43
Engine 9 from command.
00:47
Go ahead.
00:50
Yeah, the meter's on 31st and Hawthorne.
00:53
Can you send someone over to check it out? Let me know if it's normal operation on the gauge.
01:02
That's affirmative, is there in route right now.
01:09
Man, Trump's 13.
01:12
Yeah, go ahead.
01:14
Yeah, just FYI.
01:16
They're evacuating the second floor now.
01:19
I'll check the third and fourth.
01:24
Okay, do we have any smell for any reason to evacuate at this time?
01:32
I think this is just protocol and precaution for them.
01:36
No smell on floor two.
01:41
Engine one, can you tie in with staff and have them hold in place on the evacuation?
01:53
Go and liaise with staff and have them shelter in place.
02:02
Information 28 yeah go ahead yeah no readings and no odor on the fourth floor we did have one staff members saying that the smell is coming from the fifth floor we're going to head up there now copy that and engine one can you check floor one and two as well
02:34
Go ahead, 13th.
02:36
I am on the fifth floor, on the west side.
02:39
I have staffing, it was coming more from the west side.
02:42
I am all the way on the website.
02:43
I don't have any readings or any now, but I'm going to investigate further.
02:48
Okay, copy that.
02:50
All companies from Command, the plan is we're going to wait and see what the flow meter is doing from Engine 9, and we'll check floors one and two and then reevaluate on a recall.
03:03
Demand from engine 9 at the gas meter.
03:05
Yeah,
03:08
go ahead.
03:10
Gas meter here, normal operations.
03:17
Command copy.
03:19
Okay, we'll just wait for floor 1 and 2 from Engine 1.
03:26
Command, Commission 1 copies.
03:28
We'll go get gas readings on 2.
03:34
Agent 1, truck 13.
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Truck 1, Medic 318, Party 2, Delta Seizure, (number withheld) Southwest Morrison Street.
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Tucker Box 1.
03:47
For Truck Wine, that 8, 38, priority, 2, Delta Seizure, (number withheld) Southwest Morrison Street.
03:53
Tucker Box 1 at 1803.
03:58
Copy, thank you.
04:02
Command, Turk 13.
04:04
Yeah, command, go ahead.
04:08
Yeah, I checked the west side apartments and everything.
04:12
Talks for a resident here as well.
04:14
They didn't have any smell.
04:15
We don't get any reading.
04:16
I just connected with Engine 28 as well.
04:18
They walked the whole fifth floor from end to end, and they didn't get any reading either.
04:24
Okay, and just trying to wrap my head around this thing, does each individual unit have a gas oven?
04:35
The two units that I was in up on the west side did not.
04:43
Command copy.
04:49
28 from Command, are you comfortable with the recall?
04:56
We might want to check the commercial, the kitchen on 4-1 at the Engine 1, haven't already done that.
05:02
If everything's clear there, Ivy comes over the recall.
05:06
Okay, copy that.
05:07
To all companies, we'll hold until we get an all-clear from Engine 1 on the kitchen, and that'll be our trigger for recall.
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Location mentioned:
SE Hawthorne Blvd UNIT 217, Portland, OR 97214
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