Person threatens harm on fourth floor with gasoline smell, Jersey City NJ


Police and fire units responded to a report of a person threatening to harm themselves and others on the fourth floor of a building near Grand St. There was a strong smell of gasoline, prompting evacuation of the floor to prevent fire or explosion risks.
Audio|Source: Jersey City Police
05:42
Transcript:
00:00
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.
00:23
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.
00:51
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 is undetermined if it's gas or gasoline?
01:16
All right, SD 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?
01:42
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.
02:12
ESU[2], Channel 2, ESU, Channel 2. Have the sergeant and the officers evacuate every apartment on the fourth floor to begin with? Receive. Emergency 4[1]. Emergency 4. Making way up with a 752 Grand Street, 752 Grand Street. We got a school unit and F.D. off.
02:41
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.
03:10
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?
03:38
I could call this morning as a report being ruined. But she calls the exact address, I don't see one here.
03:47
Yeah, sorry, we're working on it right now. I'm switching out the cops. Once they were upstairs for a while, I brought a different pair up now. We're working on it. We're going to see. Yeah, we got that. Okay, we're at 630. Tyrus Stephen of Port was agent. That's correct.
04:14
I will advise and receive. We'll be received up. That's going to have feedback now and advise that. T.D. that'd be able to help them to help RP. They've done it already. But since they're off, could you have to FD[3] shut the gas off already?
04:42
Please. Sergeant, are you doing a call back right now by chance? Just work the callback, not getting an answer. I'll give them another call back. But from FD[3], they confirmed that it's gasoline and not gas. All right, Sergeant, I hear a phone ringing. You're calling right now.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Emergency 4: Emergency situation
[2]
ESU: Emergency Service Unit
[3]
FD: Fire Department
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Location mentioned:
Near Grand St, Jersey City, NJ 07304
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