Apparently employees for Energy West, had thrown away several boxes of expired scratch-n-sniff cards that were left from an educational campaign to teach consumers to correctly identify the smell of a gas leak. The identification campaign was an apparent success. The sulfur smell that followed the trash truck on its rounds after the boxes of scratch-and-sniff cards were simultaneously crushed by the truck's trash compactor was so strong that it prompted several citizens to report the smell of leaking gas. Emergency crews responded to the reports Wednesday morning and several buildings were evacuated, including the civic center. Methyl mercaptan is a chemical that characteristically smells of...
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