Strong gas odor traced near Spring Forest and Rainwater, Raleigh NC
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Fire & ArsonEmergency units investigated a strong gas odor near Spring Forest Road and Rainwater Road in Raleigh. The odor was traced across multiple nearby areas and seemed to be moving through the region. No immediate source was found, and crews continued to check the area to identify the cause.
Audio|Heard on: Wake County Fire
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06:49
Transcript:
00:00
We got an odor when we come back through about, I don't know, a couple hundred yards west of rainwater at Spring Forest.
00:07
We're going to turn down rainwater and go down rainwater.
00:10
I'm going to switch back over to headquarters and see if they have anything else because they just got to call.
00:16
Yeah, we don't smell anything, and we're right here with you.
00:24
Bobby Station on the Corps.
00:28
Squire One, you gonna need me?
00:34
Get him a few more seconds and do a walk there.
00:37
I'll just be good.
00:43
Pitch and calls.
00:44
I didn't have any gas over up there.
00:45
We saw you just drop notes for a duplicate call.
00:48
The only odor we have is close to Station 15.
00:51
I'll spring forward. Do you have anything further?
00:57
Class.
00:58
I think the Division 2 is on the Bravo side.
01:05
That's a long time.
01:11
It's at that intersection,
01:14
because when we get the call, when it pops in our ear,
01:19
it's triggering that duplicate incident and pulling that incident up.
01:23
I'll get you northbound or southbound that intersection's camera.
01:28
Okay, we are, the only odor we had was probably three-quarters to a mile away from that intersection.
01:36
So I don't know.
01:39
really that this is going to be helpful.
01:43
Can you give the caller call back please, at least the Duke caller,
01:47
and see if they provide anything further where you should be standing by Raywater sprinklers?
01:56
There is a fly long point-down.
01:58
It's going to be the second floor main hallway.
02:00
It's going to be the second.
02:03
Ten four.
02:06
Engine one on scene, level on session.
02:13
Probably. We'll stand off three.
02:16
Okay.
02:23
Okay. They're going to be doing some painting in here.
02:30
I'm out on 41.
02:39
Engine 131 is arrived in 64.
02:44
I'll let you know if you're better to turn on Lassarwoods or come by our truck.
03:05
Units 141, you're going to be responding to room 404, room 404 at the Woodspring Suit fair, college first party alone, 60-year-old male, conscious breathing, experiencing an abdominal pain.
03:15
No fainting, but he does have pain above the belly button as well as extreme bloating, responding normally to Charlie.
03:24
Okay,
03:25
thank you, Edward.
03:28
We're going to beach.
03:29
We're being advised, your volume is very, very low now.
03:32
I don't know what happened.
03:38
We'll copy your traffic.
03:39
We're going to check the area for another minute or two and check a couple more locations and then we'll contact you back.
03:46
Okay.
03:51
Roller from Hollis Springs Battalion 1.
03:56
Go ahead.
03:58
The Hollis Springs Car 4 back in service would be late.
04:01
Copy car 4 in service.
04:02
Copy car 4 in service.
04:07
34 is off the seat.
04:10
Cover.
04:15
Engine 4 is on scene.
04:17
We got a two-story, split-level, rather than construction.
04:22
We had nothing showing from the Division A.
04:26
Engine 4 will be established command going to Division 1, Part 2 for the investigation.
04:35
Just call it in.
04:37
Hey, GORS, what's the location on Spring Force?
04:40
It's showing two,
04:42
seven, two, two, two, then I'll let me get you the intersection.
04:47
Spring Forest Road and Departure Drive.
04:49
What unit you have going?
04:52
Ladder 22 or engine 19?
04:56
All right, you can cancel ladder 22, let engine 19 proceed on on the ladder 15 will be checking with engine 19.
05:04
To work.
05:10
Yes,
05:11
you need to go back in service.
05:15
We can also cancel MC1 and RPD to the call.
05:23
104. Myself and Mobile Crisis 3 will be back in service.
05:31
The latter 15 in the area going to take the call with engine 19.
05:39
15.
05:42
Go ahead, 15.
05:46
The odor all the way from Falls, Hunting Ridge to Spring Forest to J-Tree.
05:52
It comes and goes.
05:54
I don't know if this was a propane truck passing through the area or what you're going to find, but it seems to be traveling.
06:04
We saw you all over the place, so we're, uh, we'll be there in just a second, we'll see what we can find.
06:10
All right, we're just going to come down emergency.
06:18
Hey, 15,
06:20
you might be right.
06:22
I mean, we're down here,
06:23
just came past green,
06:25
and I can smell it coming down the road.
06:32
Yeah, I think it's going to be Bobble since we're getting in Superwear.
06:38
I agree. We're going to pull a U-turn.
06:39
We're going to head back towards Capitol to see if maybe...
06:42
I didn't notice a truck going by us,
06:44
but we're going to see maybe if we catch metalite, see if we got an idea what it was.
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Location mentioned:
Spring Forest Rd & Rainwater Rd, Raleigh, NC 27609
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