Carbon monoxide incident at stores near brookline street, Cambridge MA
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A carbon monoxide leak was detected at a group of stores near Brookline Street in Cambridge. Occupants were evacuated safely. Emergency responders are investigating the source.
Audio|Heard on: Cambridge Fire Grounds 14 and 16
Listen to dispatch call
01:25
Transcript:
00:00
Could you upgrade this response for a carbon monoxide incident?
00:07
No illness, but we have a block of stores.
00:11
We're evacuating now.
00:13
We've got 30 parts per million.
00:15
All right, we're received and we'll start out of the source that way.
00:21
Yeah, affirmative, thank you.
00:31
Ladder 1 to Division 1.
00:37
Division 1.
00:42
All right, Chief, we're working on getting all the occupants out, a little bit of a language barrier in different places.
00:49
But so far, we don't have the source, but I believe the peak reading, which we didn't get in again, is going to be the laundromat occupancy on the Brookline Street side.
01:06
10-4[1]. We're pulling up now.
01:08
We'll take command.
01:12
10-4[1]. And Division I are off in command.
01:21
I have an ambulance coming to standby and police for traffic.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment or affirmative response indicating message received and understood.
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