{"id":37688,"date":"2022-10-24T23:59:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T05:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/that-skunk-like-smell-in-ignacio-was-not-a-gas-leak\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:39:12","slug":"that-skunk-like-smell-in-ignacio-was-not-a-gas-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/that-skunk-like-smell-in-ignacio-was-not-a-gas-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"That skunk-like smell in Ignacio was not a gas leak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8854b6ce-cf9d-491b-8d68-0e08fd37eb10&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1180\" alt=\"Los Pinos fire crews do a weekly training outside the Ignacio fire station in September. At the Ignacio station Monday, the fire district asked community members for feedback on what kind of services and tax increases they would support.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Los Pinos fire crews do a weekly training outside the Ignacio fire station in September. At the Ignacio station Monday, the fire district asked community members for feedback on what kind of services and tax increases they would support.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Shannon Mullane\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Several residents reported a distinct odor of gas wafting through the air last week in Ignacio, but a fire official says the smell came from a device intended to give natural gas its pungent aroma \u2013 and there was no gas leak.<\/p>\n<p>Residents began noticing the odor Wednesday and it persisted until Friday, said Joseph Kuzma, with the Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado. Some people called 911 to report a possible gas leak, according to Ignacio Public Works.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Brad Eggers with the Los Pinos Fire Protect District, said the odor was a leak from an \u201codorizer pot\u201d on the west side of town. An odorizer pot adds a skunk-like smell to natural gas \u2013 usually a mercaptan liquid \u2013 which enables it to be readily detected in the event of a leak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what people smelled,\u201d Eggers said. \u201c\u2026 It wasn\u2019t a gas leak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-9c899598031f59a95f54bfa00402f7c1\"><a href=\"mailto:molsen@durangoherald.com\">molsen@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several residents panicked at the pungent odor wafting through the air<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1235,477],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-37688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-ignacio","tag-natural-gas"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83747,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37688\/revisions\/83747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37688"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=37688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}