Fire units investigate possible gas leak at warehouse, Columbia MD
Fire & ArsonFire department units responded to a large warehouse near Marathon Ridge Road in Howard County for a possible gas or carbon monoxide leak. No hazardous gas readings or odors were detected inside the building. The structure was not evacuated. Crews planned to check the rooftop furnace and HVAC units to ensure safety since those had not yet been inspected. Access to the interior was limited. The investigation continued with utility company coordination.
Audio|Source: Howard County Fire Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Sir, can give me an update on what you have inside.
00:06
There's no readings over here.
00:08
We're not able to access the notes of the building.
00:11
Do the doors be unlocked?
00:17
We're going to head over to where...
00:19
...the service at Marathon Ridge Road, near Marathon Ridge Road.
00:26
Okay.
00:29
And that's currently yourself and the crew of one to one.
00:34
That's correct.
00:37
Okay,
00:42
and you're heading over via your apparatus or you found the access point through this mega-sized warehouse?
00:51
We're going via apparatus.
00:53
There's no access to this mega-size warehouse.
00:57
Okay, when you come outside, you all stage with your apparatus.
01:01
No need to come over to this side unless we need you.
01:04
Battalion, Howard, I'll have the command.
01:06
Command will be set up on the Charlie's side.
01:09
Engine 1-4-1 shortly will be making entry to investigate.
01:16
Howard's Direct, Battalion, 1-1, Command, 1-4-1 is going in shortly to make entry 812.
01:25
51 hours safety one
01:31
Can you call the caller and have them come back out to the Charlie side so the engine company can join them and be G&E on the investigation?
01:42
The caller was BG&E?
01:48
Copy
01:53
On five, priority three, two to all directs trash.
01:59
Eddie, 14. Engine 1-4-1 out.
02:06
Angel 411.
02:09
Can I get a code for Century Box number (number withheld)? GID is (number withheld).
02:18
That's right.
02:23
Go on a tower, you're right.
02:26
Forward, Director.
02:32
4.1, it's in the call for you, sir.
02:39
3-1, Howard?
02:42
3-1.
02:45
Can you put Rescue Engine 32 in reserve status?
02:49
And 31's moving over to Station 2 for a little bit.
02:53
All right.
03:01
for one command making his trust, hi charl like that's my group.
03:08
How it's track?
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Do you want to command?
03:18
Command, Good.
03:21
So I just had face-to-face with BG&E.
03:23
No odor, no readings inside of the structure.
03:27
It is not evacuated.
03:29
However, he did state that the furnaces have not been checked on the roof.
03:37
What's that location that needs to be checked?
03:42
He stated that the units on the roof have not been checked.
03:49
Okay, I'm that right.
03:50
Do you have access from the interior?
03:56
We do not. No interior access where we are.
04:02
Okay.
04:04
Commander Tower 10.
04:07
Terror 10.
04:10
Come around to the Charlie side, via the Bravo side, there's an access point of a fence, you see a security.
04:18
I'm going to make access to the roof and check a couple of the HVAC units.
04:24
I'll get an exact location for you from one to one in a second.
04:28
Let's start heading over this way.
04:30
All right, Derek, we're on the way.
04:35
That correction, 141.
04:37
Commander 141, do you have a better location so that Tower Tank position?
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Howard County, MD
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