Carbon monoxide leak detected at Glenfield Avenue apartments, Richmond VA
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Fire & ArsonAccording to the dispatch call, a carbon monoxide leak was detected at two apartments near Glenfield Avenue, Richmond. Fire units and the Department of Public Utilities responded. Adjacent apartments were evacuated as a safety measure.
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03:59
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00:00
Engine 13, Engine 21, Engine 17, Truck 5, Safety 1, and Battalion 3.
00:06
Inside gas leak.
00:09
Near Glenfield Avenue.
00:11
Engine 13, Engine 21, Engine 17, Truck 5, Safety 1, and Battalion, 3.
00:18
Inside gas leak.
00:21
Near Glenfield Avenue.
00:23
Cross streets are Bruce Street and Harwood Street.
00:26
Contact, Channel 3.
00:28
Timeout, (number withheld).
00:35
Showing on companies around near Glenfield to get inside.
00:39
DPU on scene,
00:41
advised they're getting gas readings from an apartment through the mail slot, request via.
00:49
Showing on companies around 2026 hours.
00:56
13 is on scene, two-story apartment building.
01:01
We have DPU on scene.
01:04
Alive command is investigating.
01:09
Copy 13 on scene, 2-7 apartment building, DPU.
01:13
On scene. Has somebody investigating 2028 hours.
01:18
From a Tide Free's arrival, it looks like at the two-story apartment buildings by the end of the group apartment.
01:24
I mean, assuming command of the Glenfield incident, the command post for about a half a block south of the incident.
01:30
I believe it was on 3rd, I'll see how does command post a half a block south of the incident, 20-30, 1-hour.
01:43
Okay, 13th, command.
01:51
Go ahead. All right.
01:53
DPA Zone saying they've checked near Glenfield.
02:02
Checking to command.
02:05
Go ahead.
02:08
Sorry, Chief, I was having radio problems.
02:12
DPUs on scene, they've checked near Glenfield, the landfill.
02:20
Nothing was happening inside that department.
02:24
However, they checked apartment near Glenfield, which is vacant.
02:31
They put their detector through the mail slot.
02:35
They're detecting CO reading.
02:43
Precise, they're detecting CO reading, not natural gas reading incorrect.
02:49
That's correct, sir.
02:51
And truck five is on the seaside trying to open a window.
03:02
Receive. Richard, go ahead and get some working incident.
03:07
Copy work incident.
03:09
Twenty-three-two hours.
03:12
In 13, just want to confirm, we evacuated the adjacent apartments to this.
03:21
Just that not,
03:28
Go ahead.
03:32
We're in the process of evacuating the adjacent building.
03:39
All right, just the adjacent apartment are correct, not the adjacent building?
03:45
That's affirmative.
03:47
You the command,
03:54
just to make you aware, RAA has been contacted by DPS.
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Glenfield Ave, Richmond, VA 23224
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