{"id":158582,"date":"2026-02-10T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158582\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T16:57:07","slug":"natural-gas-odor-in-arlington-prompts-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158582\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas odor in Arlington prompts concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770742627_849_arlington-sign-source-arlington-city-hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; Students in Arlington are being kept indoors because of a natural gas odor in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">But it&#8217;s just a precaution. Officials said there is no citywide gas leak.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to the Arlington Fire Department, a natural gas compression station had a pipeline issue. That caused a change in pressure and release of odor.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">But city officials clarified that there is no citywide gas leak. Instead, people are smelling the natural gas odorizer, mercaptain, which was released into the air.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Arlington ISD sent a message to schools acknowledging the odor and letting teachers know that city officials are working to address it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Because the odor has been detected at multiple schools across the city, the district encouraged all schools to keep students indoors and refrain from outdoor activities as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">District staff are also adjusting campus air intake systems to try to minimize the smell in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Atmos Energy said the issue is not related to any of its pipelines or properties. Instead, the gas company referred all questions to Energy Transfer Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">There have been no reports of evacuations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story comes from the Arlington Fire Department and Arlington ISD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/arlington\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arlington<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article ARLINGTON, Texas &#8211; Students in Arlington are being kept indoors because of a natural gas odor in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,223,122,216,393],"class_list":["post-158582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-news","tag-tarrant-county","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}