Stove left on causes minor gas leak in vacant apartment, Leesburg VA
Fire & ArsonFire department responded to a vacant apartment near Clubhouse Dr where a stove was left on. This caused a minor gas leak with slightly elevated explosive gas levels. They forced entry to turn off the stove and ventilated the area. Maintenance was contacted to address the issue.
Audio|Source: Loudoun County Combined Fire Rescue
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Transcript:
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Made entry into apartment L1.
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Stove was on.
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We have a slightly elevated LEL.
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We're going to go ahead and start with ventilation.
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Stove's been turned off.
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I believe that's going to be the primary culprit here.
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Okay, copy. Is it going to be an occupied or vacant apartment? Vacant?
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Okay. Okay. Clubhouse Drive Command from Loud.
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Hi, Loud. We did to get in touch with maintenance.
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Still being around shortly.
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Okay, thank you.
00:21
Hi, Loud. You're 20 minutes, 20 minutes into your incident.
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Also, we need to know if the crew is forced entry into the apartment.
00:29
Does these work police need to be notified?
00:31
That's correct.
00:32
We did force entry.
00:33
We can call all these for aiding.
00:35
Okay. All right you probably heard.
00:36
The apartment L1, big apartment is still in the left behind.
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Cruiser and the pressures are ventilating now.
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Take me. Two seven fifty-two.
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Location mentioned:
Clubhouse Dr, Leesburg, VA 20175
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