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Fire units respond to gas odor in home, Colonial Heights VA

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Piedmont Ave, Colonial Heights, VA 23834

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews were dispatched to a home near Piedmont Avenue, close to Meridian Avenue and Pot Street, after reports of a natural gas odor inside the structure. Responding units included multiple engines, a rescue team, and a battalion chief. Occupants were advised to evacuate while crews investigated the source of the smell.

Audio|Heard on: Colonial Heights City Fire and EMS
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02:15
Transcript:
00:00
Engine 941, engine 992, rescue 942, and battalion 915.
00:07
Smell of gas in a structure.
00:09
Near Piedmont Avenue.
00:11
Engine 941, engine 992, rescue 942, and battalion 915.
00:19
Smell of gas in a structure.
00:21
Near Piedmont Avenue.
00:23
Cross streets are Meridian Avenue and Pot Street.
00:28
It's coming unpacked too.
00:38
Nine hundred and seventy-one, I'll be here responding also.
00:41
Switching to detective.
00:44
Copy, we respond.
00:45
Switching it back to eleven twenty-nine.
00:56
Engine 941 responded from Food Lion.
01:19
Engine 992 responding.
01:25
Engine 992 responding, 1130.
01:35
Forty-one respond.
01:40
Rescue 942 responding.
01:43
1130, tax time and stack two.
01:52
All units, you're responding near Piedmont Avenue.
01:56
15 responding.
01:59
Copy, responding 1130 hours.
02:01
Responding near Piedmont Avenue, cross of Meridian Avenue and Pot Street for the inside of a house on the meter side with gas odor in the structure.
02:11
Somebody on the left side of the house was working at it.
02:13
They were advised to evacuate.
02:14
Time out 1130.

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Piedmont Ave, Colonial Heights, VA 23834

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