♪♫ This Tank Is On Fire….♪♫
#FAIRFIELD, CT, July 17, 2013: At 5:52 P.M. the Emergency Communications Center received a report of Propane Gas Grill on Fire in the rear yard of a Northwood Road residence. The Fairfield Fire Department responded within minutes with four engines and two ladder companies. Engine Three, stationed only one block away, arrived on scene and extinguished the fire with an extinguisher under the command of LT Darrick Lundeen. Soon after the fire was extinguished personnel noticed that propane gas was leaking from the valve area of the twenty pound cylinder. Personnel monitored the air using combustible gas meters and determined that the concentration was not a hazard to area residences. Personnel were unable to stop the leaking gas so a…
