Gasoline odor detected under house with unknown source, Virginia Beach VA
Fire & ArsonResponders detected a strong gasoline or diesel smell in a home on Elbow Rd. There is about a foot of water mixed with an unknown substance under the entire house. No signs of fire or injuries were found. The source is unknown. Fuel cans were found in a shed about 100 feet away, but none were spilled. Investigation continues to find the source, including checking for buried tanks.
Audio|Source: Virginia Beach EMS
05:45
Transcript:
00:00
Miners on the scene behind the battalion.
00:05
Can't have you move forward with your crew and your meter.
00:09
Just get some initial readings underneath the house.
00:16
Okay, can we move forward, like pull forward?
00:23
There's plenty of room if you want to go around.
00:25
We left space for the ladder in front of the structure.
00:32
Judy Quinn.
00:34
Go ahead, 18.
00:37
Go forward, we're getting a smell of gasoline in the home.
00:42
Got me.
00:47
Bata 10 was in the space for you to get no, we can pull forward if you have.
00:51
Need it.
00:56
Yeah, we got a lot of some either gasoline of oil or something or need to home.
01:04
If not a oil burning furnace, it's natural gas heat.
01:15
Copy is the tank exterior above ground?
01:25
I'll be a remain at this location on Elbow Road awaiting PD.
01:30
I believe Fire Rescue 1 is already put in a case for that.
01:33
They're going to be setting up flares on Elbow as well.
01:38
2223.
01:44
Porta Camille.
01:47
Go ahead, he missed 4.
01:50
I'm going to be remaining on seeing it this incident on Belmont Road, fire risky one is setting up some players and then they'll be heading your direction.
02:00
Copy.
02:03
Command Engine 18.
02:06
Command Engine 18.
02:09
21.5.
02:12
Light, ten,
02:15
sir.
02:20
In advance of 23P, P.
02:22
When you arrive on scene, you can stage behind ladder 1013P.
02:28
In Engine 18.
02:31
Go ahead.
02:35
If we have any patients that are going to need to be evaluated and is Ladder 10 reading any readings inside the structure? Also, do we determine if it is an exterior tank above ground?
02:53
Dave on EMX and no readings or say no readings.
03:01
Copy. No patient and no readings as of now.
03:08
Lieutenant Commander, we have no readings.
03:11
However, be advised, there is a significant amount of water under the structure that it smells of diesel or kerosene of some type.
03:22
The entire structure is full of that smell.
03:27
Unknown where the source is coming from, unknown if they have a tank buried in the yard from the structure when it was originally built in the 6th.
03:41
Copy.
03:43
Hard to tell from the outside.
03:46
Is it possible that a neighbor's tank could have ruptured? It doesn't appear that a structure is close enough for that to have happened, though.
03:54
Negative. We're checking a shed out back.
03:56
They're keeping some fuel cans, but it's a pretty good distance from the house.
04:05
Copy.
04:08
Letterton driver.
04:10
Can we set up ventilation?
04:13
And when Rescue 1 gets here, we'll have them go through with a more sensitive instrument.
04:21
Ladder 10, Command, be advised.
04:23
I don't know that the ventilation is going to do anything in that we would have to get rid of the product before we can vent.
04:37
Copy. And you got a visual in the crawl space.
04:39
It is laying with some sort of product.
04:44
He has a hole cut in the floor from inside where you can look under the structure.
04:49
It is at least a foot deep underneath all the way the entire underside of the house.
04:56
Unknown what the substance is in it, I don't see anything separating like oil wood.
05:03
Nothing floating on top, nothing sunk to the bottom.
05:06
It's just mixed in with the water, whatever it is.
05:12
Copy that.
05:18
18, could you remain something in the shed?
05:24
18, could you repeat?
05:27
We check the shed.
05:28
There's a couple gas cans and stuff, but there's nothing tipped over and it'd be nothing even remotely enough to cause what's going on already the house.
05:35
It's a good, the shed's a good 100 feet, 150 feet away from the home anyways.
05:44
Comey a cut.
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Elbow Rd, Virginia Beach, VA
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