Natural gas leak investigated at apartment on east 17th st, Winston Salem NC
Fire & ArsonFire department is investigating a natural gas leak inside an apartment near East 17th Street. The strongest leak was found in apartment 1044. Gas to the stove was shut off as a precaution. No active fire or hazardous conditions detected. Crews are checking multiple apartments for gas odors. Meters currently show zero readings.
Audio|Source: Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Fire and Rescue
03:19
Transcript:
00:00
Okay, now the meter is reading zero, we might have issues of that, but it's only made it would have and our sensor has been sent off.
00:07
Can you to control.
00:08
Control from Battalion 2.
00:10
Still have a time to.
00:11
Contact POSG, have them respond to near East 17th St.
00:15
Stable.
00:16
Okay, 22303 truck operator.
00:18
Battalion 2, the engine 3 truck operator.
00:21
Go ahead, boy.
00:23
Go ahead.
00:24
We're in public service with CNG, they're wanting to know if the leak is inside or outside.
00:28
Can you advise?
00:29
Can you advise? Leak is inside apartment?
00:30
Tamport. Light one.
00:31
Go ahead.
00:32
Is it only effect in 1044 or is there multiple apartments that have a smoker?
00:37
1044 was the strongest in the occupant of 1042 said she smelled some odors of gas, but we didn't smell the same one went in there.
00:45
And our meters are even zeros in every apartment now.
00:48
Okay, any obvious sources?
00:50
They cut the gas off to the stove in 1044 and that's the only thing we can find this gas inside the apartment.
00:59
I don't know if the hot water heaters are in the cross space or the furnace is in the cross space, but that's all the thing we could shut off.
01:05
Another one.
01:06
Go ahead.
01:07
You'll check the yellow flex line that's behind the oven, stove area, and check, make sure that that's not leaking.
01:13
You may want to shut off the quarter turn at that valve, but that's an area that we commonly have problems.
01:18
Yeah, that's the one that I'll mention they shut off in the kitchen.
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Location mentioned:
E 17th St, Winston-Salem, NC 27105
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