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Sierra Club member warns gas leaks are straining Richmond Fire Department resources
Summary
An advocacy chair for the Sierra Club told the Public Safety Standing Committee volunteers used 911/PulsePoint data to catalog gas leaks and that those incidents have required substantial Richmond Fire Department deployments; he urged council to consider the fiscal and health impacts during budget planning.
Lee Williams, advocacy chair for the Sierra Club’s Falls of the James Group, told the Richmond Public Safety Standing Committee during public comment that volunteers in the group's Beyond Methane and Electrify RVA working groups used 911 alerts and the PulsePoint app to document suspected natural gas leaks across the city.
Williams said the group cataloged calls and the Richmond Fire Department's responses. "So as, from…
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