Investigators check home for odor from HVAC system
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St. Mary's MD Fire-Tac Group Calls
03:44
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00:00
Five two, you're responding to box 506 , (number withheld) Long Road.
00:05
The 1017 is going to be homeowner.
00:08
They just had a HVAC guy leave their residence as he was working on their unit.
00:13
And she advised that there was now a strange odor and vapor coming out from around the HVAC system.
00:19
She described the smell as some sort of bleach.
00:23
This is 5-3, copy.
00:27
5-3 is correct.
00:28
Did you have the hammer or evacuate the building?
00:32
Yes, sir. They should be evacuating the building.
00:36
Copy. Is there a single occupant?
00:40
Negative.
00:43
She did advise that nobody was sick and nobody was feeling like they were getting sick.
00:48
Okay.
00:50
10-15 on your channel with you.
00:54
10-15, okay.
00:56
Charles County, 10-15, which one?
01:01
The last Charles County on this channel, can you repeat your last?
01:06
Charles County, 10-15, officer, been around.
01:12
10-15, sir.
01:14
Truck one staging, (number withheld) Long Road.
01:18
Get your size up here, sir.
01:21
Come here, sir.
01:23
Yeah, see what's going on.
01:26
Chief one, go ahead.
01:29
Make contact with the HVAC company that was out here.
01:32
See what they use.
01:34
I'm correct.
01:36
Chief one's on the scene.
01:38
Chief one, okay.
01:41
Chief one's on the scene.
01:42
We're going to establish a command until they arrive.
01:43
We'll find out.
01:44
Truck one, you're the investigation.
01:46
I'm correct.
01:47
Chief one's on scene.
01:48
Command, truck one's investigation.
01:51
Command, it's a one-story all the way around.
01:54
Got side Charlie access, it's on a crawl space.
01:58
Got three guys making entry.
02:01
No readings at the door before entry.
02:06
Okay, got single story all the way around.
02:09
On crawl, and you're making entry with three.
02:13
Understood, copy single story on crawl.
02:16
Three guys making entry now.
02:19
Okay, we're operating in the Charlie quadrant.
02:24
Normal readings on the meters all the way throughout.
02:30
Copy, you're going to be operating on Charlie Quadrant, and you've got no one working throughout.
02:34
Have they been able to make contact with their HVAC company to see what they were using?
02:41
Command, she tried to call them back and couldn't get a hold of them.
02:45
It was like J&D Heating HVAC.
02:50
She had a chemical
02:51
like a mist coming out of the vents in the floor.
02:55
We're not getting that at all right now.
02:57
Okay, I assume you have no odor present on your nose yet.
03:03
We got a little odor.
03:05
It's kind of like a sweet smelling odor.
03:07
We're gonna want to meet in the call space, make sure they're there too.
03:12
Copy.
03:13
Five two, you want to take a 2nd , I'll go.
03:16
Copy.
03:19
Any investigation, we're gonna send five two up in a 2nd , sir.
03:24
Copy.
03:26
Yeah, it sounds like she had a plug somewhere.
03:28
She said, "What's on her?" Maybe some type of liquid pushed through it.
03:34
We're only worried that this hissing and this came after they were gone.
03:41
Okay, we're trying to make contact with the company now.
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