At about 3:40 PM, an alarm began to ring in Pullen Hall. According to Donna Yoder, who had been evacuated from the building, there was an odor of natural gas in the building for the second time today.
The first time the alarms went off was approximately an hour before. The inhabitants of the building were told to leave and were reportedly outside for approximately 30 minutes.
The second time the emergency responders were called, they intended to test for a potential natural gas leak in the building.
According to an emergency responder in one of the fire trucks, they responded to a call of natural gas odor in the building. The assistant fire chief, Joe Hoffman, confirmed and said that as of yet, "we haven't found a trace of it, it's more of a precautionary measure to be sure."
Wray Blair, one of the employees in Pullen, said the responders came to test for natural gas, "and the next thing we know they told us to leave."Ambulances were dispatched as protocol demands of the fire station. Frostburg Company 18 and Command Unit 16 were on the scene.
Firefighters could be seen at the building testing the HVAC units for a potential leak.
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