Gas leak investigation near highview ave and oxford st, Wethersfield CT
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Fire & ArsonEmergency crews investigated a possible gas leak near the intersection of Highview Avenue and Oxford Street. Elevated gas readings were detected in a catch basin, and crews monitored air levels and checked for contamination.
Audio|Heard on: Wethersfield Fire
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03:12
Transcript:
00:00
May Savage's a command, ran to a couple walkers that smelled it around on Oxford, that high view.
00:06
Check the area a little further.
00:10
Topper.
00:16
Part two on the scene on high cube.
00:18
1654.
00:27
31, why you call up just past that, uh,
00:31
have a U-Haul or something up there,
00:33
stage there and walk with people up.
00:38
31, copy, 31, 17,
00:41
Oxford.
00:44
Benjewa is on scene at the hydrant.
00:47
Oxford and over.
00:50
1656.
00:56
Chief right there, I walked that line right there, that curve line, if you said by those bushes there,
01:01
right behind you.
01:03
That's what they got it. I walked in the smelling thing.
01:09
Okay.
01:10
I've got a catch basin here.
01:12
We'll have to check this.
01:15
Eleven, I can come right up just short of the intersection by my car.
01:18
There's a hydrogen on the other side with states before it and walk your crew up in meter.
01:27
This is received, Chief.
01:28
No way up.
01:31
Truckpoint is on C's aging, high view,
01:35
just short our Oxford.
01:40
1637.
01:42
2 to 1. We do have a gas shut off on the roadway and a big crack in it right from that area.
01:51
Okay.
01:55
It's catch basin right here in the corner.
01:57
We did get elevated readings on the tick tracer.
02:06
I'm sorry my reading was on.
02:10
The catch basin on the corner here,
02:13
the tick tracer is getting some elevated readings.
02:16
We're going to check it with the floor gas now.
02:28
3rd1, cross the road right there.
02:31
Don't want anyone else down here with people on our streets.
02:39
Two to the commands, two.
02:43
Come here, good.
02:46
We're getting out of the catch basin and the water looks kind of murky.
02:50
We might try to drop a pad in there, see if someone dump something in there.
02:54
Four gas is not eluding.
03:00
I see. I'm sorry.
03:09
Just watch that car behind you, so get that out of the area.
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Location mentioned:
Highview Ave & Oxford St, Wethersfield, CT 06109
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