What to do if you smell gas in your neighborhood

Multiple neighbors on Banbury Lane in Bloomfield say they were smelling gas days before a deadly house explosion on Monday. This comes as investigators are still trying to determine the cause. So, what should you do if you smell gas in your neighborhood?

As neighbors passed by the rubble left by a deadly house explosion on Banbury Lane, they prayed for the person who lived there, now gone. Their body was pulled out of the debris.

“It’s tragic because he wasn’t expecting this,” Ravene Neil, a neighbor, said. “He was just living his daily life, going through his routine.”

As investigators continued to look into was may have caused the explosion, neighbors say days before, they noticed the smell of gas.

“There was something lingering, like a sulfuric smell or something of that nature,” Neil said.

A smell that led other neighbors to contact Connecticut Natural Gas, or CNG. They sent a crew to do a check over the weekend.

“They checked my house; they checked this neighbor right here,” Ravene Neil, a neighbor, said. “I didn’t see them going over there. I told them it was around here.”

Now, many are asking if any of this was preventable.

“We want to make sure that it’s figured out because if it’s affected one house, how many houses is it going to affect?” Neil said.

CNG responded with a statement saying they’re supporting the investigation and referred any questions to lead investigators.

On CNG’s website, it urges people to either call their dedicated hotline at 866-924-5325 or call 911 to get to the fire department. It also tells people not to open windows or turn on appliances, among other steps. Neighbors on Banbury Lane hope for answers soon.

“Hopefully they get to the bottom of this,” Neil said.

The Bloomfield Fire Marshal did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether gas was involved.

The name of the person who died has not yet been released.

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