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Propane tank leak contained near Dollar General and school, Germantown NY

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Near NY-9G, Germantown, NY 12526

Fire department responded to a propane tank leak near Dollar General and Germantown School. The tank was shut off, the area within a quarter mile was evacuated, and ambulances were staged for possible medical emergencies.

Audio|Source: Columbia County Fire
03:4
Transcript:
00:00
Come on, Germantown, Command, Command 3.
00:02
Command, two things.
00:05
First, National Grid, 20-minute EPA, 2-0 minutes.
00:09
Second, we are going to send an ambulance for a standby at the scene there.
00:14
Where would you like them to stage? Where is the best spot?
00:17
Have them go to where the Dollar General is.
00:22
They can come up as close as the next fire truck.
00:25
They're going to have to come off of Main Street and up.
00:27
We will stage an additional ambulance at Dollar General at 1029.
00:33
Columbia 911, German Town Command.
00:35
I'm going to be on German Town Command.
00:36
Apparently the school has been evacuated.
00:38
I'm going to respond up there.
00:39
There's no reason the school should be evacuating at this time.
00:42
We weren't advised for that.
00:48
1029. If you can get a hold of the school, yeah, they can resume operations.
00:53
Breaching school will notify them of that 1030.
00:55
Funnel on German Town Command.
00:57
What is on, German town?
00:58
Just an update, we evacuated a quarter mile from Main Street and to Maple Labs.
01:05
Also, we believe that we have the tank shut off and the fuel leak has been secured at this time.
01:09
Receip evacuated a quarter mile.
01:12
The propane tank has been shut off and the fueling stop to 1031.
01:17
9-1 command, can you send Claremont Tanker to our station for standby at this time? Chief Command, requesting Claremont's Anchor to relocate to your station, 1032.
01:31
Claremont 6035 copies en route to Germantown station for standby.
01:36
6.35, copy direct at 1032.
01:38
Copy. Copy. Copy.

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