Gas leak found and secured on rooftop unit at commercial building, Columbia MD
Fire & ArsonFire department found and secured a gas leak at rooftop unit number 15 of a commercial building near Snowden River Parkway. The gas supply was isolated, and building maintenance was notified to repair the leak. The incident was resolved with no further hazards reported.
Audio|Source: Howard County Fire Dispatch
02:44
Transcript:
00:00
You can see me from where you're at?
00:06
That's correct, sir.
00:09
Alright,
00:12
about 20 feet behind me, there's a rooftop unit.
00:16
It's running fan only.
00:17
All the other ones are running heat as well.
00:22
This is reading fan only and it had a small leak near a cellenoid.
00:26
We've isolated the natural gas to the rooftop unit.
00:31
It's number 15, rooftop unit number 15.
00:35
We'll just need to pass that along too.
00:38
maintenance for the building.
00:43
Okay, I'm direct since it's secure.
00:46
I'm not going to call BGE back.
00:48
Let maintenance handle the issue.
00:54
Yeah, I agree with that.
00:55
There were no readings.
00:56
We just picked it up with the sniffer.
01:02
Okay, direct.
01:05
You guys can come on down.
01:07
One for one from commandment.
01:10
One from one from there.
01:12
Okay,
01:14
we've isolated it to rooftop number 15.
01:17
If we could just get a number for maintenance or someone inside your location in charge and we can pass that information on.
01:26
So they can come out and repair.
01:28
It'll be rooftop unit number 15.
01:34
Copy, I'm direct.
01:35
We located where it is internally.
01:37
And then also they advise their managers not here until 9 o'clock.
01:41
So I'll give that with the individual I've been talking with inside here.
01:48
Okay, I'm direct.
01:51
Charitaine you did with going ahead and scaling this back.
01:57
That's right.
02:01
Command out.
02:03
Howard?
02:07
Rooftop unit on the facility, closer to the Charlie side,
02:12
rooftop unit number 15,
02:14
had an issue.
02:16
Gas has been secured.
02:19
Management will be notified for repairs.
02:23
I'm going to terminate command,
02:25
switch back to Alpha 2,
02:27
and units will go in service.
02:30
When ready.
02:34
Power is direct.
02:36
Command is advising that is secured on near Snowden River Pkwy, Terminating Bravo 1, all others switch over to Alpha 2.
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Location mentioned:
Near Snowden River Pkwy, Columbia, MD 21046
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