Gas leak detected at riser station prompts evacuation, Whitestown IN
Fire & ArsonFire crews responded to a large gas leak at a gas riser station near Heritage Drive and Indianapolis Road. There was a strong smell of gas and audible leak noise. Authorities evacuated the area and closed nearby roads while waiting for the gas company to arrive and address the leak.
Audio|Source: Boone County Fire and EMS
03:40
Transcript:
00:00
Control, Italian 207.
00:08
I'm on a scene, I'll assume command.
00:12
Ladder 272 will be investigating.
00:17
Clear count, 2007 with command.
00:26
Control from command.
00:29
Go ahead, command?
00:33
Then you give me in one direction.
00:36
Command investigation.
00:39
Go ahead.
00:42
We have a gas riser station here to the north, center point. We do have something blowing off and we can smell it. We need to get them in route.
00:53
Control from command.
00:55
Do you copy?
00:58
Clear contacting center point.
00:59
Also the wind is out of the south at 13.
01:04
Okay.
01:10
3271 from command.
01:14
Good.
01:16
I need you to take your crew and go up to the north and check that up in there.
01:21
See if you've got any concentrations or anything you can smell up in that area.
01:28
Clear.
01:35
272D. Go ahead and back your apparatus up.
01:38
About where you were at.
01:43
Go from command.
01:46
Go ahead, command.
01:50
Can you get hold of the PD,
01:53
have them to block 400 south,
01:57
just west of our location?
02:04
Control from command.
02:08
Go to command.
02:11
Have any of those cars have them to approach from the west?
02:16
I need that road shut off west of the end.
02:24
And letters just anyone?
02:28
Good.
02:30
We're here at Heritage Drive, Indianapolis Road. We have a strong odor up this way.
02:34
I'm not catching anything on my meter.
02:38
Okay.
02:43
Do you want to stay up here or do you want to check anything further?
02:48
Come back to you guys.
02:51
No, for right now, just stay up in that area because I'm sure eventually we'll get calls on it up there.
02:59
Clear.
03:03
Call from command.
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Click, ma'am.
03:09
Did Centerpoint give you an ETA?
03:13
Okay,
03:17
what we got here is it's at one of their pumping stations right here on the corner.
03:22
They have a larger leak.
03:25
You can actually hear it.
03:27
It's inside the FinCbin area.
03:29
So at this time,
03:32
ladder 271 and ladder 272 have just staged back.
03:36
We got 400 blocked off just waiting for Centerpoint to get here.
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Location mentioned:
S Indianapolis Rd & Heritage Dr, Perry Township, IN 46052
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