Carbon monoxide detected in apartment isolated gas and power, Lonaconing MD
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Fire & ArsonEmergency responders attended an apartment in Allegany County for a medical emergency involving carbon monoxide detection. The gas was isolated and power was turned off. The gas company was notified for further assistance.
Audio|Heard on: Allegany County Fire
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02:46
Transcript:
00:00
Medic 1 to near Castle Ridge Drive, Apartment 7 for medical emergency.
00:15
Lieutenant 22, Command.
00:17
Command.
00:24
All right. Medic 1 to near Castle Ridge Drive, Apartment 7 for a medical emergency,
00:32
1245.
00:33
You can smell right inside the front door.
00:36
Not natural gas, we're hitting 20 parts per million on carbon monoxide around the refrigerators and towards the back.
00:49
Oh, you can throw someone off there.
00:56
So 1-2-0-0-0-0-0-1 in 1247.
01:03
The engine 101 is in quarters.
01:07
Engine 101 in Station 1248.
01:14
4-2 is back in service and station off the end.
01:18
3-4-2-2-8. 3-4-2-8 back in station off the air, 1249.
01:26
Fresh Ginch, 19, back in.
01:31
6-219J back in 12.50 hours.
01:39
344, on my patient.
01:42
344, stay on the location.
01:46
3.4. Shary on scene, 12.50 hours.
01:52
10.22.
01:54
Command.
01:59
All right, I'm not getting the reading up here of carbon monoxide, but the sniffers going off like crazy up here.
02:05
Only one of the units have the smell.
02:09
We can smell it on the ladder, and as you get through it to it, the closest one to where you guys are.
02:15
You can smell it heavily.
02:17
Can you isolate the gas for that particular unit?
02:22
That's direct. I'm going to go ahead and shrug it off and isolate the gas.
02:26
I'm correct.
02:28
Communications from Church Street command.
02:29
You can go ahead and start a gas company.
02:32
All right, it's isolated and the power turned off to it.
02:36
Looks like that was the only one that was actually running.
02:44
Correct, I'll notify the gas company at this time.
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Allegany County, MD
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