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Oil Smell Reported In Escambia; Health Department Cautions Residents
May 20, 2010
The Escambia County Emergency Operation Center has received reports of possible petroleum-like odors in the southern part of Escambia County.
It is possible that these odors are related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, according to a press release from the Escambia County Health Department. There is currently no measurement data of petroleum-like substances in the air.
As a result, the Escambia County Health Department is advising residents that exposure to petroleum-like odors may cause temporary respiratory symptoms in sensitive individuals, such as eye, nose, and throat irritation. People experiencing respiratory symptoms, including those with pre-existing severe or chronic respiratory conditions such as asthma or chronic lung disease, should stay inside and consult their physician for treatment if symptoms persist. While inside, residents should close windows and run their cooling system. If symptoms persist while inside an air-conditioned home, residents may choose to leave the area until their symptoms are tolerable. The health department will continue to monitor this situation.
Health officials have been informed that the Escambia County EOC is reporting these odors to the BP Hotline and that the source of the odor is being investigated. Florida residents and visitors who need updates on the oil spill can call the Florida Oil Spill Information Line at 1-888-337-3569 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (EDT) seven days a week.
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10 Responses to “Oil Smell Reported In Escambia; Health Department Cautions Residents”
The paper mill in cantonment used to call it clean steam, but it never smelled like pine-sol fresh to me. So what you going to do? We all just can’t pack up and move. The damage done from BP oil LEAK as they call it will be around for a long time and looks as if it could spread up the east coast.
So far they have only tried to syphon off some of the oil and not stop the flow. The top hats that were built where not designed to stop it, just allow them a means of capturing some of it. Why they don’t use every effort to stop the flow, I will never understand.
bob your right about the jobs,
but you know mom and pop shops and manufacturing of good clean products
also bring jobs!
If we all stopped buying other countries goods and boycotted walmart maybe
we could do what built this country and make better products again IN THIS COUNTRY! Stop sending all our money OUT, with nothing comming in, and
then you would see what clean air was and that money could still flow, towns
could still grow, and ppl would prosper. Way back when some towns had
dirty air from certain manufacturing, but many towns made good clean products.
We could have been one of those towns.
Also bob, obviously you have never had an acute ashma attack, and you
don’t have cronic lung disease!
Bob, you have a reasonable point, however that point doesn’t really mean squat to those who have breathing complications and something sets off an attack!
We can control not driving ourselves into area’s that have Mills and etc…, but we cannot control the South winds that bring in the vapors of the petroleum-like substances, into our air space.
My husband describes his attacks as trying to breath out of a straw OR being a fish laying outside a fish bowl and gasping to get air into his lungs. It’s not a good feeling to not be able to breath freely and is very upsetting to watch.
I smell the oil smell up here in Brewton during the day. It smells more like burnt plastic to me. The TV said the winds are blowing from the South so everyone should be smelling it as time goes on. The Health Department should check there machines if the are not picking it up.
When I go to Pensacola ,I smell the paper mill at Cantonment. When I go to Brewton I smell the paper mill at Brewton. While I’m traveling on Hwy 31, I smell the Big Escambia Facility. Early in the morning with a southeast breeze I can smell Solutia. When I go to Bay Minette I smell the Pole Treating facility. Do I run get in the house,close my windows and act like a recluse? Of course not , as long as we have these odors I know people have jobs and their children are being cared for everyday. When these smells cease to exist we are all in trouble.
That’s funny Big B! Good point.
Let’s try anything that may work to clean up this horrible mess. If Kevin Costner says he has an oil separator that he, his scientist brother, and an attorney have invested millions of dollars in (and that it actually works), then by all means, let ‘em go at it! No harm in trying! In the meantime, BP can concentrate on sealing the darned leak!
It’s amazing to me that when you strike oil on land, they call it a gusher, but when it’s 5000 feet below sea level in a 21 inch open pipe. It’s called a LEAK.
BP concedes Gulf oil spill is bigger than estimate. What else is BP hiding from us?
I certainly hope they can prevent the oil from reaching our shores.