The monitors worn by firefighters that detect harmful gases in the air, including natural gas. (MEGAN STACEY/The London Free Press)
If you’re catching a whiff of a foul smell as you step outside, no need to fear a natural gas leak.
The London Fire Department got a slew of calls about nasty odours – including the rotten egg smell that’s a telltale sign of natural gas – within a 45-minute period on Saturday morning, platoon chief Shawn Fitzgerald said.
Firefighters are investigating, but no natural gas has been detected.
“We’ve had a number of calls, none have been natural gas related. We’ve monitored the air and it is safe,” Fitzgerald said.
A spokesperson for Enbridge Gas confirmed there’s no cause for alarm.
“We don’t have any reports of gas leak in London. We don’t know the source of the odour. But if people think they smell natural gas, they should still call Enbridge Gas so we can come out,” Enbridge spokesperson Andrea Stass said.
Firefighters use equipment that clips to their uniforms to test for natural gas in the air. It was technology that proved critical during the Woodman Avenue explosion in London’s Old East Village neighbourhood last summer, as the detectors alerted emergency workers to the gas leak and allowed for a quick evacuation.
“We have monitoring equipment, machines, that will sample the air and will give us an idea of what the product is. It has not been natural gas,” Fitzgerald said of the smells noticed on Saturday morning.
Firefighters haven’t been able to identify the source of the stink, Fitzgerald said, but suspect it is a result of garbage and compost processing plants in the city. That’s a long-running challenge for Londoners, especially in the south end.
The weather may be partially to blame, too.
“With 100% humidity, pressure, and cloud cover, that will hold the odours in instead of going up into the atmosphere,” Fitzgerald said.
“It does happen, we experience this kind of thing (sometimes).”
Fitzgerald said the fire department also checked with CN and CP rail about any mercaptan leaks. That’s a harmless gas added to natural gas to make it smell like sulphur, a product shipped by rail. But Fitzgerald said London’s rail yards have confirmed mercaptan isn’t the source of Saturday’s stench, either.
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