Gas odor detected near building in Needham, Needham MA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/10/2025 01:42 PM

Near Chestnut St, Needham, MA 02492

Fire crews responded to a report of a gas odor near the gas meter at a building near Chestnut Street in Needham. They detected a slight natural gas smell on one corner of the property and began monitoring gas levels while notifying utility services.

Audio|Source: Needham and Brookline Police / Fire

02:42

Transcript:

00:00

2702 responding 272 Chestnut for the investigation.

00:03

Fire alarm 1643.

00:05

Back in count, 1644.

00:09

Change one's going to be open.

00:24

C2[1] will be out Chestnut, C2 will have Chestnut command, we'll be investigating.

00:29

C2[1], you're on team investigating, you have command.

00:38

Corner control.

00:39

Take me off the phone.

00:42

Roger.

00:56

T-South command for anyone.

01:02

Violin answering command.

01:05

Yeah,

01:07

That call came in from the pass-by, I said it was at 272.

01:11

Yeah, that's the perimeter 272, Chestnut Street, she was going in for an appointment, so it was by the gas meter.

01:19

Received. We investigated.

01:20

We couldn't even find a gas meter.

01:22

We've got no odors all on the Alps out of the building.

01:26

We'll check the back out.

01:30

I want to add that nothing on the Alpa side.

01:32

You can check the area of the building.

01:48

C2[1], Engine 1, can you go to the rear of the building?

01:52

On the way.

02:01

Command to 100, I got the gas meters over here on the Delta Charlie Corp.

02:11

We see if I'll just check the garage.

02:22

Check sign command for Alan.

02:27

Violentress command.

02:31

We found the meter, it's on the Charlie Delta corner, picking up a slight odor.

02:36

We're going to put the meter to it now.

02:37

We just notify episodes, we've got a slight odor.

02:40

We'll update you on readings if we're getting it.

Police codes explained

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[1]

C2: Command unit/Car 2 (Deputy Chief in command)

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Near Chestnut St, Needham, MA 02492

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