{"id":159351,"date":"2026-02-11T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159351\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T03:03:07","slug":"arlington-fire-department-addresses-city-wide-natural-gas-odor-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159351\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Fire Department Addresses City-Wide Natural Gas Odor Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arlington Fire Department addressed a series of citywide odor report on Tuesday that stemmed from a compression station in South Arlington. <\/p>\n<p>The department addressed the calls in a series of X posts that started just before 11 a.m. on Friday morning. The first <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ArlingtonTxFire\/status\/2021267410263629955?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a> reads, &#8220;At approximately 8:30 a.m. this morning, the Arlington Fire Department received multiple calls from residents reporting the odor of natural gas across various areas of the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A second post continues, &#8220;The Arlington Fire Department immediately communicated with Atmost Energy, who advised that the orodr was the result of an over-pressurization of mercaptan at a compression station located in south Arlington, requiring a controlled release. No natural gas was released.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A third post explains that natural gas is odorless, but mercaptan is intentionally added during processing so that people are able to smell the gas when it leaks. &#8220;Mercaptan has a strong, pungent smell, even at very low concentrations,&#8221; the post reads.<\/p>\n<p>The department says the southerly winds on Tuesday morning allowed the odor to travel across Arlington as far as Lamar Boulevard. &#8220;At this time, there is no danger to the public, and no hazardous conditions have been identified,&#8221; the final post reads. &#8220;Arlington Fire Department and Atmos Energy continue to monitor the situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One person in the X thread wrote, &#8220;Well, at least I know I&#8217;m not going crazy. I was searching all over my garage trying to find what the [expletive] stunk so bad and then I walked outside and I smelt it out there, so.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arlington Fire Department addressed a series of citywide odor report on Tuesday that stemmed from a compression&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-159351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159351","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=159351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}