12/13/2024
Calloway County Emergency Management and Murray Natural Gas are trying to determine the source of the smell of gas that has been reported by people all over Murray this morning.
Emergency Management Director Josh Kerr said at approximately 10 a.m. that there is currently no confirmation of a gas leak.
“At this time, we do not have any confirmed gas leak anywhere in the county,” Kerr said. “We just received multiple calls this morning of a strange odor. We're just trying to determine what that is and where it may be coming from, but at this time, we don't have anything confirmed.”
Kerr said he had spoken to other emergency managers in nearby counties, and although Graves and Marshall counties had nothing to report, the emergency management director in Henry County, Tennessee had received similar reports from the public.
“The winds are coming out of the south, and they said that they had some reports down that far south as well, so it may not even be in Calloway County,” Kerr said. “The smell is kind of dissipating right now, at least, as I’ve been out driving around. It's very faint, but Murray Natural Gas has responded too, and we're taking every call. We're treating every call as if it is a potential gas leak, so they're checking everything, but so far, they have not found any evidence of a gas leak anywhere in the county.”
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.