Gas odor prompts evacuation of apartment fourth floor, Jersey City NJ
Medical EmergencyPolice and fire units evacuated the entire fourth floor of an apartment building near Grand St due to a strong gas odor. There was a report of a male threatening to harm himself and others in the building. Emergency crews are investigating and assisting a female with breathing difficulties caused by brain cancer.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
06:54
Transcript:
00:00
Receive. Housing three on two. Housing three on two. Housing three on two. Housing three. Can you start me a bus[3] to Lowe on Route 440? We have a female here saying she can't breathe has a brain cancer made the bus.
00:29
4-4. Roger. Oh yeah, a lot of gas up here. We're going to stay up here for a few minutes. I mean, not even. We're going to try to knock on doors and then we're going to get out of here and strong up here. What's the apartment number?
00:54
All part maker says the fourth floor. Can you try to the quarterback? We're going to see if we need a following it. All right, we're going to knock on doors to start clearing the fourth floor. PC[4], we're going to hold on the floor.
01:18
All right, West Sergeant, just certify the, I don't know who my boss is there. Do I have a, I think a captain only? Notify the captain, please. The office is 192 Linden, have any. City captain, Channel 2. Go out with them. Victor, Echo, Oxt, 1-5, November. I'm back to the Toyota.
01:43
And everyone else with them is the gasoline smell on the fourth floor. Have units there clearing the floors now. We see, we have a specific apartment? Yes, Sergeant, no. The entire fourth floor smells like gas, though. We are attempting to clear it out now.
02:07
As you get the SD[2] off there. The G's on right now.
02:15
Did you want to call history for that location? Definitely call back. I receive all father. Plus we've got a couple of suspicious polls from that address. I'm going to go through it. See if anything particular from that floor.
02:38
He's ever got 2793, you got a move in case if you're going to look up in a high gun. Yeah, see, do we have contact with the suicidal mail? And if that rights 2793, you need to move your vehicle. We try to call back. Nothing.
03:06
The fourth floor is definitely a nice smell. I went to the third floor and the second floor, there's no order. All right, this is gasoline smell or natural gas? Honestly, I don't know. Gas, that's all I know. Yeah, and from SD[2] is undetermined if it's gas or gasoline?
03:31
All right, SD[2] is on the scene. That's correct, but stay on the scene and you're still trying to determine if this gas or gasoline. All right, and we don't know which apartments this male lives in? That's correct. We just have it as a fourth floor. All right, who calls this in?
03:57
Anonymous. All right, you have E-Squod responding as well first. Regist good on that, 831-25, negative stolen, no local address. Receive, is there any sort of number on file? That's a negative below.
04:27
ESU[1], Channel 2, ESU, Channel 2. Have the sergeant and the officers evacuate every apartment on the fourth floor to begin with? Receive. Emergency 4. Emergency 4. Making way up with a 752 Grand Street, 752 Grand Street. We got a school unit and F.D. off.
04:56
I have a caller stating that he wanted to hurt itself and everybody else that was in the building. This is from the fourth floor. They're there with that odor of gas all on the fourth floor. I'm sure of his gas for gasoline. Right now they're going to evacuate the fourth floor. All right, right, before we see.
05:25
What was the apartment number? No apartment number right now. We just have it as the fourth floor. We've got trying to go through the history, see if you have anything. But right now, we just got 752 Groom Street on the fourth floor. All right, receive. True. Yeah, too. Was this a call earlier today?
05:53
I could call this morning as a report being ruined. But she calls the exact address, I don't see one here.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
ESU: Emergency Service Unit
[2]
SD: Supervisor/Detective
[3]
bus: Ambulance/EMS
[4]
PC: Police Captain
Disclaimer:
This was transcribed by AI and may contain errors. Please verify the information independently.
Location mentioned:
Near Grand St, Jersey City, NJ 07304
Correct
Incorrect
