{"id":398314,"date":"2026-08-05T13:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398314\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:08:07","slug":"strong-gas-odor-reported-in-central-el-paso-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/398314\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Gas Odor Reported in Central El Paso neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS \u2014 A strong gas odor was reported in parts of central El Paso Tuesday night. According to a social media post from City Representative Josh Acevedo it was traced to the Marathon Petroleum refinery.<\/p>\n<p>Marathon Petroleum confirmed to Acevedo that trained professionals at its El Paso refinery identified the source and are working to address the situation.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Air monitoring has been deployed in the community as a precaution and has not detected any readings that indicate health risks,&#8221; Marathon said in a statement to Acevedo.<\/p>\n<p> City officials said the odor appeared to be dissipating as of early Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>KFOX14\/CBS4 has reached out to Marathon Petroleum&#8217;s El Paso refinery for additional information and is awaiting further details, including what caused the odor and whether any operational issues were involved. <\/p>\n<p>Several viewers contacted KFOX14 to report smelling the odor in the area. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS \u2014 A strong gas odor was reported in parts of central El Paso Tuesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-398314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398314","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=398314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}