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Subscribe to RSSA strong smell that triggered 250 emergency calls Sunday night in the west Phoenix area appeared to be due to propane being purged from a pipeline.
Fire investigators on Monday noted that a propane storage facility had been venting gas at the time of the calls over a two-hour period.
"It just blanketed the neighborhood," Debra Hill told AzCentral.com, sniffling as she spoke Sunday night and complaining of a headache, runny nose and burning sinuses and eyes.
Hill, who described the odor as similar to strong onions and garlic, said one neighbor left the area after becoming ill and vomiting.
"It's smells like a propane tanker collided with a truck filled with rotten eggs," posted one reader on AzCentral.com.
On AzCentral.com's Facebook page, one reader said she had vomited from the smell.
A fire department spokesman earlier told msnbc.com that city crews ruled out any gas leak or hazardous material from a landfill after checking the areas. No evacuations were ordered and no further calls were received after Sunday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Somebody cooking meth.
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My bet's on the gates of hell opening up. That state's a hotbed of evil activity, what with all the gay-bashing, immigrant-hating, woman-oppressing politics and law enforcement going on.
Maybe the Obamas were nearby recently. The stench of their administration's corruption permeates everything.
Someone had too many cheese tacos and beer ....
L.J - love how people like you can bash this state and the citizens living here without knowing a dang thing. When was the last time you stepped foot in Maricopa County? Until you've lived even just 1 day here (trust me a day is all you need to see the problems we have) keep your bashing limited to the areas you actually know about.
Jan Brewer?
Saw AZ's dumb governor interviewed on tv Sunday - that's AZ big problem - she will probably not be re-elected. I was ready to ok funding of a "fence" between AZ and CA, after hearing her.
"Rotten egg" smell would indicate a gas leak - if so, must have been a doozy.
@Heyseed,
I was thinking the same thing. Must be her breath.
TarAz - You don't have to live in Arizona to know about the bigots, the racists, and the far right nut-jobs. Just read the paper or watch the real news.
Maybe Zathrose was nearby recently. The stench of Zathrose's venal posts permeates everything.
There. See how easy that is? I just love how people think it's somehow witty to trash the presidency on every completely unrelated news story. And I'm sorry everyone else had to see this.
I'm so happy nobody brought politics into this...
I don't understand what is wrong with "LEGAL IMMIGRATION" instead of just jumping the border and expect to be welcomed with open arms. Any POTUS that doesn't enforce the Constitution of the USA shouldn't hold that office. Brewer might have been a little disrespectful to Obama on his visit but he has disrespected the entire country.
...I'm also thankful nobody brought Mexicans into this
The OP is correct. I used to cut sheets of plastic with a circular saw as part of my job. You get a strong onion smell from the hot plastic. Acetane. Same stuff used in making meth.
Maybe Jan's Brew(er)ing something else that's toxic. Some more rhetoric for everyone to drink.
UnDoug - What wonderful utopian city do you happen to live in??! Your comment is laughable. Ignorance, pure ignorance...
TarAZ,
One need only look at the politicians y'all keep electing (and re-electing) and how they behave to know everything we need to about your state to be able to confidently and accurately make the kinds of statements about it that I did.
Conservative Republicans have, throughout the history of the party all the way back to its founder, Abraham Lincoln, caused extreme divisiveness in the country at every turn and brought economic ruin to any area they governed. Though, whereas Lincoln brought about such by being very much for human rights, which at least made his destruction of our societal fabric noble, his political descendants are doing it through complete disregard for human rights.
So, again, I'm willing to wager that the unholy stench the people in this town reported was a result of the gates of hell opening up as more demons were turned loose to run for your state's political offices.
if you dont like what goes on in our fine State keep your sorry backside out of our State
AceTONE, Jack...and it smells nothing like onions or garlic. Not sure about the plastic from your cutting...The smell from the cooking (burn) of Iodine, phosphorus, and ephedrine, however, has a very nasty smell.
The extreme devisivenous this country is currently experiencing is the product of the current president I voted for. Enough of the liberal BS. This nation is suffering from Obamanation right now. Our President has split this country along lines of race and class like no other in recent history. You had better add Obama to your list of devisive leaders. Whose rights are being disregarded in Texas L.J, or did it just sound good in your liberal gut to say that?
Don't worry ....
They just found it ....
It was Obama's BS ....
Interesting how all the Patriots come crawling out of the woodwork to lament how the evil "illegals" are ruining this Great Nation of ours -- when all the Great Heroes of those Patriots expanded the Empire of The United States of America by ILLEGALLY invading Sovereign Nations to do so.
That's right, all you Right-wing Tea-Tagger Republican Conservative Uber-Patriots, the U.S.of A. ILLEGALLY INVADED the Black Hills (Paha Sapa, named by the Lakota); ILLEGALLY INVADED Mexico (the Recognized International Border in the 1840's was the Nueces river, not the Rio Grande - which was about 150 miles to the south); ILLEGALLY INVADED the Cherokee Nation (Jackson IGNORED the Supreme Court's order to keep U.S. Citizens out of "Georgia" in the 1830's); there are more, such as what happened during the "Spanish-American War", but these three illustrate very well how the EMPIRE of the United States of America was expanded. The most recent ILLEGAL invasion of a Sovereign Nation is the invasion of Iraq WITHOUT A DECLARATION OF WAR in 2002.
Y'all complain so much about "illegals", yet y'all NEVER remember how YOUR OWN ANCESTORS also entered a Sovereign Nation ILLEGALLY.
This is simple! The rectangular trapazoid of the left femur of the homogenius lactate elevated to a round number, is equal to the summation of the bicranial pressurized modem. In other words , some times a cigar is just a cigar. Keep looking for the onions and garlic!
TarAz just pray that the glacial keep providing water to the Colorado river for AZ and that the Yellowstone super-volcano doesn't blow up in your lifetime, otherwise you will have a bigger problem and you definitely will be in the wrong side of the border.
Lanikai Ron, the divisiveness in the U.S.A. is NOT the fault of only one person, no matter what position of Authority they may hold -- it is the fault of all the PARTISAN POLITICS which has been going on for AT LEAST the past 200 YEARS. Read some REAL History for once, not just what Faux News Corporation puts out.
Once you tank an Elephant up on methamphetamine it gets the farts. Often have a garlichy mixed with onions smell. Yep. Republicans probably had an orgy before they went to church, and some of 'em didn't clean up properly afterward.
If these comments represent average American citizens, we're in bigger trouble than I thought.
Quacked One, just more liberal BS. I don't watch or read Fox News. That's just another one of the one liners you liberals use to distract from the issues of those that don't buy your BS. Kinda like when I was called a racist for speaking out against Obama's policies in these messages. It matters not to you liberal clowns that this white guy voted for President Obama.
Maybe the rotten smell was "due to propane being purged from a pipeline" or maybe Jan Brewer was in the area.
What's dividing the country? Couldn't be the hate filled rhetoric spewing forth from the likes of Limbaugh, O'Reilley, Beck, Hannity, Coulter, etc.? Not to mention that coming from the pulpits of so called "Christian" churches...
Lanikai, forgive yourself, we can't all have brains or think critically.
@Lanikai Ron,
I have been to Lanikai and just don't understand how anyone who lives there could have that much hate packed away. Where's your Aloha spirit? If you hate liberals so much, why do you live in Hawaii? Why not live in FL or AZ where you can be amongst your own kind and be happy?
You are so wrong about Obama being devisive. Obama isn't all sunshine and light but his head and his heart are in the right place. Sorry but the other options are hideous and you know it.
lucky them...ya ought to have...hog houses and chicken farms...been thru arkansas lately...stink'n...
marinmom, I live here because this is my home. Liberals have not yet separated this country into districts based on politics. They know if they did, liberal districts would have no pockets to take from to support their populations. Let's just agree that your beliefs are different from mine. I don't hate you for that.
Nice try Sean, but there is much more to who gets those tax dollars than you understand based on your comments. Why don't you read the comments on the discussion there and you may learn something.
Terrible derailing about politics. Can't suspend everyone, but L.J. Rhodes, Zathrose, Heyseed, and UnDoug, you're each suspended for a day for violating #4 of the Code of Honor.
Post on-topic. There's a politics section.
Tyler, now that I can post again, tell me with a straight face you didn't at least crack a grin if not outright laugh about the whole gates of hell bit. ;)
@Sean, I'm lovin' ya. Great post. Lanakai can't admit he's wrong (a narcissitic republican trait).
Naw...southern wind blown up from Mexico!! You like our burritos senor??
Dave. Please stop the Mexico bashing....
Rhodes, stop the Liberal bashing.
Brooke, only if Mexico stops the United States bashing.
Brooke I thought Dave was bashing "burritos".
there is a "mysterious" foul odor spreading in Arizona? Well, get over it! That is just the result of the Grand Odorous Party combining Jan "The" Man Brewer with Mittens Romney. Don't worry, it will be, like the GOP, Gone With The (political) Wind in November.
thanks for the laugh. I could hardly eat my lunch for cracking up reading these. Keep 'em coming!
I thought Dave was bashing gassy-ass emissions.
jpeyton76
Mexico is too busy bashing themselves to bash us.
Must be the new Olive Garden or Papa Johns in town....those 4 star eateries.
Sorry everyone. Knew I shouldn't have had that sandwich.
did you have a side of beans?
The local landfill farted.
More likely a politician came to town.
Ummm, Jan is still there.
Pee U
lol
Garlic also sickens Vampires..
It might be time to move out of Arizona or start arming yourselves with a wooden stake & a mallet
Sorry, Daytona cancelled, so all there was to do was eat chili dogs and drink beer.
That was the first order of business: dodge any responsibility.
Is Rosie ODonnell in town?
Not sure..but Palin is.
I hear it started right after Jan Brewer indorsed Romney!
No, it started when your demorat president was in town.
No I meant to say demorat.
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lLive in the Toronto area in Canada. I know the smell they are referring to. It has wafted through a 5 or 6 block area in my neighbourhood on numerous occasions. It it is a very thick repugnant mix of onion and garlic, it will last about 45 min to 1 hour. Each neighbourhood has such a diverse mix of cultures that foods from around the world we think someone is cooking something, we just can't figure out the who, what and where of the situation. YET!
It sounds similar to the smell you encounter when you walk into a middle easterner owned hotel. Is someone cooking a goat back there or what?
I don't know if I'm just oddly over-sensitive to the smell of onions, but I can smell them strongly for days and days after I cook with them. And unfortunately, I love onions so I cook with them all the time. It's so bad that I have to wash all my towels and such because I can still smell the onion in them days later.
Although in your case, I'd keep an eye out for Pakistani cooking in your neighborhood. I had a roommate from Pakistan in college, and whenever he cooked anything, it was eye-wateringly awful smelling. It tasted fine, but for some reason the mix of spices was horrifying to smell.
Burnt curry is the worst smell imaginable.
Is that what that is? Smells like a dirty sock full of horseradish, garlic, taint, feet, and burning ass? I like Ann Curry. Maybe not curry?
Well some of you stayed on the topic. And that is if you smell very strong rotten egg, garlic or onion odors so strong that they make you feel ill, then you better call the gas company to report a leak before your neighborhood is leveled. The smell could also be coming from a gas leak in the sewage line this could also level your block. Lots of the gas and sewage lines throughout the country are decaying fast. So lets be safe out there people and love they neighbor. Now all the hate mongering can resume along the bitter political battle of insanity. The armed forces and military veterans of this country should vote independent, and never let this political bulls**t destroy this nation. Politicians come and go but the military will always protect this nation against all enemies both foreign and domestic. It was all about a possible gas leak, or unknown air pollution in one of the best dang fresh desert air states in this country, so what the F**k got into some of you hater peoples butts????????
""BUNCH OF DUMB ASS PILGRIMS""WAR FIGHTER OUT""HOOAHhhhhhhhhhhhh
Bet it was a toxic "burp" from the landfill. Who knows what these things do to the environment at the size we build them. Not trying to be a tree hugger post, but some things that we do are just plain scary.
Plausible theory, thats why they install collection pipes and burnoff systems.
Or use the gas for electricity production for the landfill offices and garages...therefore, saving the county thousands and thousands of dollars per year.
There was an x-file exactly about this....
Almost all organic waste decomposes and produces methane. I do not think that is what it was though to be honest but it probably was something that was dumped at the landfill.
Headaches? Vomiting? Runny nose? Burning sinuses and eyes? Makes you wonder if some sort of new pepper spray type bomb is being tested before OWS protests resume this Spring. Sure glad our civil rights minded leader signed the NDAA on NYE from Hawaii while nobody was paying attention.
Stop being so paranoid; not everything is a conspiracy. Besides, this was obviously HAARP at work, duh.
It was me, I farted in the woods, err desert.
There's no mystery. Governor Brewer was in town!
My x wife is down there?
Probably has something to do with natural gas, which is leaking all over the place these days.
Natural gas is odorless. The odor we smell when we smell it, is an additive for safety. Thank you though because you were the only serious post so far, everyone else is being a comedian.
the witches Brew-er, of course!
could be swamp gas
why so impatient ....girl?.......:)
Somebody may have been adding the odorant for propane as propane has no odor. Mercaptans are used to give natural gas and propane the distinctive odor. Somebody spilled about a cup of mercaptan on the ground one time near where I lived and it stank like cattle manure for about a week in the area.
@impatient girl, the reference was to Brewer's natural gas.
You know what it was? ......Ancient Aliens
The stink was Willard Romney.
Interesting Obama has visited Canada and Arizona lately.
There has been a putrid stench coming from the direction of the republican party for many years.
Depends on the wind that day marinmom, there has been a putrid stench coming from both sides for quite some time.
Huh, are you sure it isn't just your breath blowing back in your face, Marinmom?
I've been to Phoenix several times, as I have friends who live there. I've found it to be a nice, clean, friendly place. It's a bit too populated for me to consider living there, but still, it's lovely none-the-less.
@Kai,
You can thank your fellow republicans for the "bit too populated" part of Phoenix.
How wonderful for you that a town need only be a nice clean friendly place. It must be wonderful to have such low standards. The world was made for simple minded folks. The problems arise when you simples think you can make decisions like us Big Brains.
PS It wasn't my breath but a smell seems to be lingering around your post. It's the smell of ignorance.
Rude, aren't we? LOL! Did I hit a nerve with the breath thing? Yes, I must have. LMAO!!!
The last I heard, Republicans, Democrats, and Independent's were all citizens of the United States, each with the right to choose where they live. Got a problem with that?
Kai.
Rude, aren't we? LOL! Did I hit a nerve with the breath thing? Yes, I must have. LMAO!!!
The last I heard, Republicans, Democrats, and Independent's were all citizens of the United States, each with the right to choose where they live. Got a problem with that?
Wow! Is that you common sense out there trying to make sense of insanity????
So what's the mystery? Just seal off the governor's residence.
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I think Mayor passed gas.
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I think it was the Governor not the Mayor who let go with some methane gas.
It's the illegal Mexicans cooking tacos in the tunnels that are burrowed under your infrastructure. Enjoy!!
At least the Garlic smell will keep the vampires away for a while....