Possible natural gas leak investigated near sidewalk in Streamwood, Streamwood IL
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Fire & ArsonFire and maintenance crews investigated a possible natural gas leak near a sidewalk in Streamwood. Nicor was requested for further inspection. No immediate danger was found, and no strong gas smell was detected inside nearby buildings.
Audio|Heard on: Northwest Central Dispatch (NWCD) - FD3 and Firegrounds
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Transcript:
00:00
Caley 911's on Streamwood fireground.
00:02
I just talked to the maintenance guy.
00:03
He said that it's coming from the yellow service right at the sidewalk there.
00:07
He said he just walked over.
00:09
Someone told them about the smell.
00:10
They walked over and they can hear it and smell it.
00:13
They can hear it and smell it.
00:15
All right, type with that info.
00:17
I'll make sure we got NICOR.
00:26
There's only a little whiff when we walk over.
00:30
All right, copy.
00:35
Did they say that we have any smell inside the building?
00:43
All right, copy that.
00:58
All arriving Streamwood companies just hold up in the main of the street on Irving Park for now.
01:05
I'm trying I from 133.
01:12
I don't know if they were doing work on this before.
01:14
We have had a leak from that particular apparatus in the past.
01:22
So I'm not sure what kind of work they may have been doing.
01:29
Talley 9 from 31,
01:31
we have no obvious leak from any of the fittings.
01:34
We're not getting anything in the general vicinity.
01:37
It mostly just sounds like the gas is moving through the pipe.
01:45
The maintenance man here was saying that they had NICOR out for the same issue last year.
01:50
They replaced some fittings.
01:51
At this point, there's no immediate hazard.
01:53
I don't think it's necessarily we're going to be able to do anything until NICOR gets here.
02:00
Yeah, copy that.
02:01
Do we have any parts for a million though? I didn't hear.
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IL-19, Streamwood, IL
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