Planned propane flare-off at North Virginia Street, Washoe County NV

Fire & Arson

Reported: 10/30/2025 06:02 PM

N Virginia St, Nevada

Fire units responded to a reported gas odor near North Virginia Street and West Golden Valley Road. It was confirmed to be a planned propane flare-off at a nearby facility. The response was downgraded after verification.

Audio|Source: Reno and Sparks Police and Fire

02:19

Transcript:

00:00

Battalion 1, Battalion 2, Engine 10, Engine 8, Engine 4, Engine 21, Ladder 1, Truck 3, Medic 2, Squad 1, Safety Officer, Command Channel Frequency Assignment, Gas leak or gas odor.

00:15

Respond near North Virginia Street and West Golden Valley Road. District 10, Battalion 1, Battalion 2, Engine 10, Engine 8, Engine 4, Engine 21, ladder 1, truck 3, medic 2. Squad 1, Safety Officer.

00:31

Respond near North Virginia Street and West Golden Valley Road.

00:35

The report that feral gas was going to be flaring off a bogpole, starting within like 15, 57 hours is possibly related to that.

00:49

But that's not going to be all traffic, but feral gas possibly from clearing off the thing.

00:57

We're clearing our last assignment, we can be out of the restaurant.

01:02

Thank you, John 1. Thank you, Chad.

01:04

I recommend a downgrade and we can upgrade if we could upgrade if needed.

01:10

Tension fan, the time, line. Are you in the area?

01:14

That's negative, but we have the same information that dispatch has, that they're going to be testing their system.

01:23

They're going to be letting off gas this evening.

01:29

...Mill Street.

01:34

The happy break, Reno of the time.

01:38

Okay, one.

01:42

The RPAs came from the freeway, is that correct?

01:49

That's a formative, I actually stemmed this one.

01:52

This one was saying, on Virginia just south of Golden Valley, so I'm not sure if they were on the highway.

02:00

Thank you. Even the report earlier from the propane facility that they were going to be burning off fuel, let's go ahead and downgrade this to a single-engine response, engine 10, to continue all of their units released.

02:16

Copy, downgrading to a single-engine response, engine 10 will continue.

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