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Odor near Minerva St caused by backed-up sewer linePittsburgh PA

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Minerva St, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

According to the dispatch call, responders investigated a gas odor near Minerva Street and determined it was caused by a backed-up sewer line, not a gas leak.

Audio|Heard on: Pittsburgh Fire Dispatch - Channel 1
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03:4
Transcript:
00:00
Tengen 6 engine, 6 engine only.
00:02
Near 931, around 4:30 L.S.
00:04
Street off the Busway, Minerva.
00:06
It's a report of a spilling gas in the area.
00:08
And 6 engine, 6 engine only is on 3-1, around 4:30 L.S.D for a silent gas in the area.
00:15
We're going to fire 1 at 1056.
00:24
6909.
00:26
Copy.
00:44
Second 16 and 19 engine for a vehicle accident.
00:48
It's going to be on 3.76 east on the ramp from the Ardmore side of Wilkinsburg.
00:58
Again, 16 engine and 19 engine.
01:01
The zone 325 with medics and police.
01:04
It's on the ramp of 376 Eastbound from Ardmore side of Wilkinsburg on that ramp.
01:13
It's going to be for a three-vehicle accident, a complaint saying there's back and hits hurt.
01:22
I'm out of fire one.
01:25
Ah, love a fox.
01:32
Dispatch truck 14, we're back in service last company.
01:37
Copy.
01:38
Okay.
01:46
Tential companies, 27-nish truckout, down 27 now struck out, returning 14 truck as last company.
01:52
11.01.
01:58
Fire one dispatched at 4112.
02:03
Copy.
02:04
Fire one dispatch at 4112, are you on the air?
02:08
The engine 24 is back.
02:17
Copy.
02:22
Attention all company is 24 engines back in service, 24 engine back in service at 11-2.
02:30
16 inches in.
02:34
Proceed.
02:41
Dispatch, it's six hundred.
02:51
Address near 4117 has a sewer line that is backed up and coming up out of the ground.
02:57
That's the cause of the smell in the area.
03:00
Nothing we can do.
03:01
It wouldn't be PWSA until it'd be on the actual landlord.

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Minerva St, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

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