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To: fireman15

“This article should be a good reminder that if you smell gas in your RV that you should figure out where it is coming from.”

I would offer another course of action if you smell gas in your RV. GET TF OUT! If it’s not too bad turn off your bottles as you run by them and then figure out what to do next.


37 posted on 05/13/2022 9:39:05 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: suthener
I would offer another course of action if you smell gas in your RV. GET TF OUT! If it's not too bad turn off your bottles as you run by them and then figure out what to do next.

Yes, I have met many people just like you on the 1000s false gas leak calls that I responded to over 25 years. Typically, it was the outside air, because I worked in what is affectionately referred to as one of the armpits of the Puget Sound. But they also freaked out because they left something rotting in the garbage pale in their RV or in their kitchen or in the outside garbage can. Or one of the family members took a particularly smelly poo in one of their bathrooms. Sometimes someone just farted in their presence and did not take credit for it and it cleared up before our arrival.

Every bad smell is not a gas leak. It might be better to take a few seconds to figure out what the actual source of the smell is, instead of panicking and making a fool out of yourself. Fortunately, that is what most people do, with a few exceptions.

If you think you smell gas, open the doors and windows and ventilate the suspected area. That will save time and allow those who respond to actually find the leak, if there is one when they arrive. But the most important thing you can do in any perceived emergency situation is to keep your head and not freak out... Sorry if that is news to you.

39 posted on 05/13/2022 10:11:00 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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