Gasoline smell seeping into Charleroi homes
By JEFF STITT
jstitt@yourmvi.com
Charleroi residents who live on or around McKean Avenue are being urged to ventilate their homes if they smell gasoline inside them.
Fire Chief Robert Whiten Jr. said Sunday that residents on McKean and Prospect avenues and First Street, “have been off and on reporting since Friday that they are smelling gasoline fumes coming into their house from the sewers.”
He said the state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating the situation.
On Sunday morning, Whiten posted on the Charleroi Fire Department Facebook page that at approximately 11 a.m. Friday, the department was notified of a gasoline smell inside a residence at First Street and Prospect Avenue.
“As the day went on, numerous more houses and business encountered the same problem of gasoline fumes coming up through the sewer drains,” Whiten wrote, adding that, with help from mutual aid departments, firefighters “began a full scale operation to start ventilating homes and locate the source of the leak.”
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