Construction hits gas line, causes leak at Harris Road, Charlottesville VA
Fire & ArsonA construction crew struck a gas line near Harris Road, causing a leak. Fire and rescue teams responded, evacuated the building, and controlled traffic. No fire occurred, but there was a strong gas smell and a ruptured line.
Audio|Source: Albemarle County Fire and Rescue
06:41
Transcript:
00:00
BC1, DC2, engine 5, engine 7, chart 9, your respondent of near Harris Rd, Crossview of Mailer Street, Longwood for the reported gas leak.
00:11
We'll be at the Seventh-day Church for the reporting gas leak, caller reporting gas lines struck by equipment.
00:23
You're going to have fire hydrants located,
00:27
Reinerphone of 308, near Harris Rd,
00:31
also another fire hydrant located on the corner of Harris Road and Lodge Creek Circle.
00:40
He also has a fire agent located at the end of Maylor Street right next to 2506, 949.
00:47
DCC from the tiny more. VC1, go ahead.
00:50
When engine 10 clears up over 18 hundred fifth pairs.
00:53
Understood.
00:55
ECC engine 10.
00:57
Truck, me, I am a Thai G2. We're going to come around from the Willard side to be blocking the road on the other side of the incident.
01:05
Go ahead, regent.
01:08
Okay, I'm direct.
01:09
The Italian one in the truck, I'm coming in off of us.
01:12
Just yet.
01:14
When you clear from this call, you could respond to the gas thing on Harris Road per BC1.
01:19
Okay. It depends, okay.
01:21
And from the U2C.
01:22
8 to 7, go ahead.
01:28
The honor of Harrison Welk, we'll be walking in, I'll update momentarily.
01:33
7-Robo after command.
01:35
Into 7 walking in, we'll update momentarily in the 7-ruburnum command 950.
01:39
5,
01:42
level 1, 951. Engine 5, level 1, 951. 9-2 is on scene.
01:51
DC2 on scene, 951.
01:58
Hi, one zone.
02:00
Level one, I'll be shutting the road down at Mosley.
02:03
3C1 on scene, shutting the road down at Mosley, 551.
02:10
5151.
02:15
Engine 10, gas leak, near Harris Road.
02:20
Respond on Alpha Tech 3.
02:23
Engine 10, Gas leak, near Harris Road.
02:27
Respond on Alpha Tech 3.
02:30
Tai 2P2D, ECC.
02:33
Could you have PD come in from 5th Street? Since it's a busy road here with traffic control. Understood.
02:41
EZC MEDIC-16 checking your phone.
02:48
He's going to be like 16 checking her status.
02:54
You're okay. Hey.
02:57
I'm Rob at ECCC.
02:58
Engine 7. Go ahead.
03:04
I copy you okay.
03:10
We're on scene. We have a smell of gas in the sound of a line ruptured.
03:16
We are evacuating the building.
03:19
(number withheld).
03:21
No station of accountability.
03:23
The units is the Cedar O.K.
03:25
Working ALS.
03:26
Smell of gas, line ruptured, evacuated in the building. No change of a townability in 953. Copy, Mr. O.K. is the Cedars working ALS. is there 953.
03:38
9 until you arrive.
03:42
Trackline, I'll see you arriving 953.
03:44
Battalion 1 to 7 Bravo, direct that car my way.
03:52
991 to engine 7 Bravo. You just have to worry about people coming out of Naylor from the cul-de-sack.
03:57
We got the road shut down everywhere else.
04:00
Okay, can we have another crew come to Nailer to direct that traffic then? ECCC to Harris Road command.
04:07
PD's en route for traffic control.
04:15
DCCC. Middick 16 to Mars says you are not there two seconds.
04:21
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.
04:34
Apparently there's a gentleman there standing right there near the address. We've got to get him back the way to you, okay?
04:44
Engine 10 level 1.
04:46
I have been Harris.
04:47
Engine 10 level 1 Mosley and Harris, 9-5-7.
04:51
Engine 5, redirect on my traffic.
04:59
5 is direct.
05:04
Command to engine 7, brother.
05:07
Go ahead.
05:12
Okay,
05:13
I understand you've got a gas line struck by construction workers.
05:19
Have your company, I'm having Engine Fives company move up to assist with traffic that comes in and out of Nailer.
05:28
Do you have any further needs?
05:31
That's correct. No further needs.
05:34
We're working on evacuating people out of immediate exposures.
05:39
Okay, I'm direct.
05:41
Are you getting anything on your monitors now? Is the wind pretty much taking care of it? It's going straight up?
05:49
7 Broadway.
05:51
Do you have any readings on your monitor?
05:54
Negative. There's no readings on the monitor, just a strong odor from the Alpha and Brono side of the structure.
06:01
Okay, I'm direct. I'm going to go ahead and assume command from this point.
06:05
Okay, I want to thank you.
06:07
Go ahead.
06:10
The winds are coming from the north toward the south.
06:17
Okay, I'm direct.
06:20
IG2 to ECCC.
06:21
EC2-2-1-2.
06:26
Assume command of the Harris Road incident, confirming that we do have a gas line struck.
06:35
We've got companies out monitoring and evacuating the immediate area. We're going to hold the assignment.
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Near Harris Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903
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