Fire crews handle basement gas leak on Upsala St, Worcester MA
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Fire & ArsonAs discussed during the dispatch call, fire crews responded to a reported gas leak in a basement near Upsala Street in Worcester. Firefighters located gas readings at the piping, shut off the furnace, and confirmed the building was safe before clearing most units from the scene.
Audio|Heard on: Worcester MA Fire-Tac Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
01:56
Transcript:
00:00
Car four is going to assume command,
00:02
remaining off as of what will be assignment.
00:06
Car four assuming command,
00:08
keeping the assignment 1945.
00:12
Car four to ladder five.
00:16
Ladder five entering command.
00:20
Can you confirm they have gas in the basement?
00:23
Gas service.
00:26
Lot of fire command status change.
00:29
Come on, what are your status changes?
00:33
Chief, they recently just replaced the burner downstairs.
00:38
We're getting readings right at the piping.
00:40
Burner's been shut down.
00:45
Cap, what apartment is that? Anything furnace for?
00:51
That's apartment one.
00:54
When we were getting low levels of readings upstairs on.
00:58
Okay, so they were the caller, correct?
01:03
Affirmative.
01:04
We set down the furnace here, we shut the gas off to it.
01:10
Okay.
01:13
Can we clear this and just leave you here for the gas company?
01:20
Yeah, Chief.
01:21
That's affirmative.
01:22
We're going to check the water heater real quick and then we can clear everybody out and hold out of sight.
01:29
Received.
01:32
Break.
01:33
Coming up.
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Filer.
01:38
We are returning all companies from Uppsala Street,
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Ladder 5 and Rescue 1 will make themselves available.
01:47
Received.
01:48
All companies off on Uppsala, they return holding Ladder 5, Rescue 1.
01:51
And all companies on Uppsala clearing, holding Ladder 5 resident only, moving to Charlie 1953.
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Location mentioned:
Upsala St, Worcester, MA
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