Sheriff’s Office Admin Building Temporarily Evacuated Due To Gas Smell

May 22, 2014

The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office administration building was temporarily evacuated Thursday night due to the reported smell of natural gas.

Facilities staff from Escambia County  were working with crews from Pensacola Energy and mechanical contractors to re-establish natural gas service to the building at 1700 West Leonard Street.

Natural gas service to the ESCO building, which normally supports boilers for hot water and dehumidification systems, had previously run off the Escambia County Central Booking and Detention building prior to the explosion of April 30.

In reestablishing service, the systems were fully activated early this evening and a call was made that alerted emergency crews to a reported smell of natural gas.  The Escambia County Public Safety Department responded and, after evaluating the situation with crews from Pensacola Energy, cleared the building.

The building has since been determined to be safe. Escambia County Facilities staff, Pensacola Energy and contractors are now continuing work to restore natural gas service.

Comments

3 Responses to “Sheriff’s Office Admin Building Temporarily Evacuated Due To Gas Smell”

  1. miranda on May 25th, 2014 4:17 pm

    So sad that they will evacuate the sheriffs office for smelling gas but didn’t evacuate the jail before two people were killed a friend of mine was one of the deceased

  2. John on May 23rd, 2014 8:21 am

    According to news last night they were purging the gas lines and released a small amount of gas that went down the elevator shaft. That was the problem.

  3. TAxpayer1 on May 23rd, 2014 7:42 am

    Either you smell natural gas are not? from reading this story it was a false run? there is no mistake about the smell….they should have rechecked all County Building after the last issues! Maintenance is is the key to maintaining any gas fired equipment! or the lack of it…

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