Gas line struck by construction causes leak on Harris Road, Albemarle County VA
Fire & ArsonConstruction workers struck a gas line near Harris Road, causing a gas leak. Fire and rescue crews shut down the road, evacuated nearby homes, and monitored air quality while waiting for the gas utility company to arrive.
Audio|Source: Albemarle County Fire and Rescue
06:36
Transcript:
00:00
Battalion 1 to 7 Bravo, direct that car my way.
00:08
991 to engine 7 Bravo. You just have to worry about people coming out of Naylor from the cul-de-sack.
00:13
We got the road shut down everywhere else.
00:16
Okay, can we have another crew come to Nailer to direct that traffic then? ECCC to Harris Road command.
00:23
PD's en route for traffic control.
00:31
DCCC. Middick 16 to Mars says you are not there two seconds.
00:37
Thank to engine 5. Go ahead and get your company with your monitor and head that way and see if you can't assist Engine 7.
00:50
Apparently there's a gentleman there standing right there near the address. We've got to get him back the way to you, okay?
01:00
Engine 10 level 1.
01:02
I have been Harris.
01:03
Engine 10 level 1 Mosley and Harris, 9-5-7.
01:07
Engine 5, redirect on my traffic.
01:15
5 is direct.
01:20
Command to engine 7, brother.
01:23
Go ahead.
01:28
Okay,
01:29
I understand you've got a gas line struck by construction workers.
01:35
Have your company, I'm having Engine Fives company move up to assist with traffic that comes in and out of Nailer.
01:44
Do you have any further needs?
01:47
That's correct. No further needs.
01:49
We're working on evacuating people out of immediate exposures.
01:55
Okay, I'm direct.
01:57
Are you getting anything on your monitors now? Is the wind pretty much taking care of it? It's going straight up?
02:05
7 Broadway.
02:06
Do you have any readings on your monitor?
02:10
Negative. There's no readings on the monitor, just a strong odor from the Alpha and Brono side of the structure.
02:17
Okay, I'm direct. I'm going to go ahead and assume command from this point.
02:21
Okay, I want to thank you.
02:22
Go ahead.
02:26
The winds are coming from the north toward the south.
02:33
Okay, I'm direct.
02:35
IG2 to ECCC.
02:37
EC2-2-1-2.
02:42
Assume command of the Harris Road incident, confirming that we do have a gas line struck.
02:51
We've got companies out monitoring and evacuating the immediate area. We're going to hold the assignment.
03:00
Hi, Chief 2, I have command.
03:02
BC2, assuming command, gasline, his truck, evacuating, area, and building, holding a signment at 959.
03:08
Battalion 1-197, Brava.
03:10
Okay.
03:11
Are you at 309?
03:13
Yep.
03:14
All right, if you evacuate anybody, send them my direction. We'll keep them down here in the truck.
03:24
Bobber wheelchair van 2's, clear standby, back in quarters.
03:32
Wheelchair 2, 1001.
03:36
Okay. All right.
03:41
Command engine 7, brother.
03:48
Okay, if we could just get near Harris, we need to get near Harris, and then near nailer, we need to get those evacuated.
04:03
If you can, send them up towards the Tai Chief One's vehicle,
04:08
and then just make sure you give us an all clear when you get those addresses, okay?
04:16
Near Harris, near Harris, and near nailer.
04:22
7 Charlie to command.
04:26
Go ahead, 7 Charlie.
04:28
I felt the 7 Delta checks near nailer.
04:32
Nobody appears to be home.
04:34
Can you guys if we need to evacuate near nailer? We do have a group of painters out here working on that house.
04:45
Near nailer and anything beyond that is out of the zone that we like so we can leave them there for now.
04:55
Can you advise, is it just a residential line that's hit or is it a bigger line than that?
05:02
No, sir. We haven't looked at the line. Do you want us to approach it and look and visually see the line?
05:08
Well, no, I just was, if it was a pretty significant leak, which you would be able to tell, it would probably be a little bit, it would be a little bit bigger line.
05:19
Several robes of clues.
05:21
Go ahead.
05:27
visibly or audibly hear the gas line from a block away.
05:35
Near Harris has been attempted to be evacuated, nobody's answered the door,
05:40
and then on the other side I believe those near Harris have been evacuated both of the duplexes.
05:52
Okay, I'm direct.
05:54
Okay, if you've got that kind of noise, it's a good chance that it's a little bit bigger line than what we're in residential.
06:03
However, we'll just have to wait until City Gas gets here.
06:07
But okay, we'll go ahead and mark those clear.
06:10
Italian one, the tiny two gas is here.
06:13
Okay, I'm direct.
06:15
You've got it marked down on the buildings that were cleared.
06:18
Looks like we've got all of them.
06:20
Yeah, that's affirmative. We just need to get readings around everywhere else. Just keep we need to do any more evacuation.
06:27
Make out full of one type of call.
06:30
Seven Charlie Command. Can we send vehicles out of Nailer towards Harris? Negative.
06:36
We're correct. We're holding.
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