Gasoline odor traced to snowblower under stairway, Cambridge MA
Fire & ArsonFirefighters responded to a gasoline smell in a stairwell and parking garage and found a snowblower stored under the stairs as the likely source. No active leak or fire was present.
Audio|Source: Cambridge Fire Grounds 14 and 16
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Transcript:
00:00
Ladder 1 to come in.
00:01
Go ahead, that's on.
00:03
All right, so we've surveyed the corridors on floors 1 through 3.
00:11
The odor is only in that stairway 6, and there's nothing on the CGI.
00:19
Okay, I have it. You check those areas.
00:21
Only place you have the order is in the stairwell and no readings.
00:25
You're thinking it's probably from the garage if it's only in that stairwell? Yeah,
00:30
affirmative. It's definitely like a exhaust fumes, maybe a faint gasoline type smell.
00:37
Okay, has it dissipated at all?
00:40
Yeah, I would say so.
00:41
It's definitely not getting worse.
00:42
Okay, I have it, thank you.
00:44
Rescue to command.
00:45
Answering rescue.
00:46
We're working our way down the parking garage chief.
00:49
Other than typical parking garage smells,
00:50
on P3, we smelled something that smells like paint thin us.
00:54
We'll continue to work all the way down.
00:56
Okay, I have it.
00:58
Only thing so far is maybe a paint finish mill.
01:00
Correct.
01:01
Latter 100 to come in.
01:03
Answering Lata 100.
01:04
We relocated with Engine 5 to the entrance to the garage at the bottom of the ramp.
01:11
We're working with public safety to open a door.
01:14
It's a gasoline odor.
01:15
I think we might find the source.
01:17
Just told us, give us a minute here.
01:19
Okay, that sounds good.
01:21
Glad I want to come in.
01:24
Go ahead.
01:25
So nothing's super obvious, but we do have a snowblower right under the staircase in question.
01:33
The initial complaint was about an hour ago, so I'm thinking this snowblower is our problem.
01:41
There's no current leak, but maybe they burp gas or something to that effect.
01:45
Okay,
01:46
if you think that's the cause, we can wrap it up, turn it over to the hospital, maybe they can remove that from there.
01:52
Yeah, permanent.
01:53
We just let public safety know and the machines over by the open door now.
02:01
Okay.
02:02
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Location mentioned:
Near Franklin St, Cambridge, MA 02139
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