Contractors strike gas main causing leak on Park Avenue, Richmond VA
Fire & ArsonContractors accidentally damaged a gas main on Park Avenue, causing a small gas leak. Emergency crews arrived, the area is secured with shelter-in-place orders until the gas company fixes the leak.
Audio|Source: Richmond City Fire Dispatch
01:58
Transcript:
Engine 18, Engine 12, Truck 7, Safety 1, and Battalion 2. Rupture gas main, 4,300 block of Park Avenue. Engine 18, Engine 19, Engine 12, Truck 7, Safety 1, and Battalion 2. Rupture gas main. 4,300 block of Park Avenue. Cross streets are Soured Avenue and Shenandoah Street. On tap Channel 3. Time out, 0930. Battalion 2 is en route. Our companies with the exception of Battalion 2 are shown responding 4,300 block of Park Avenue. Call is reporting contractors struck a gas line. Gas utility has been notified. Battalion 2 is on scene. We've got contractors on site. Going to be meeting with them. I'll let you know what's going on. Battalion 2 is assuming command and I have command post is at the intersection of Park and Sawyer. Okay, too, on scene. Park and Sauer as a command post in command 933. Richmond from Park having the command. Park Avenue, command. We do have a line that's nick on the block, on 4,300 block. It's not a heavy escape of gas. We're going to shelter in place at the moment in wait gas utility. We already have access denied on both sides of the intersection.
Engine 18, Engine 12, Truck 7, Safety 1, and Battalion 2. Rupture gas main, 4,300 block of Park Avenue. Engine 18, Engine 19, Engine 12, Truck 7, Safety 1, and Battalion 2. Rupture gas main. 4,300 block of Park Avenue. Cross streets are Soured Avenue and Shenandoah Street. On tap Channel 3. Time out, 0930. Battalion 2 is en route. Our companies with the exception of Battalion 2 are shown responding 4,300 block of Park Avenue. Call is reporting contractors struck a gas line. Gas utility has been notified. Battalion 2 is on scene. We've got contractors on site. Going to be meeting with them. I'll let you know what's going on. Battalion 2 is assuming command and I have command post is at the intersection of Park and Sawyer. Okay, too, on scene. Park and Sauer as a command post in command 933. Richmond from Park having the command. Park Avenue, command. We do have a line that's nick on the block, on 4,300 block. It's not a heavy escape of gas. We're going to shelter in place at the moment in wait gas utility. We already have access denied on both sides of the intersection.
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Near Park Ave, Richmond, VA 23221
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