Thursday, September 28, 2017
Important smell?
Listening to local online 'scanner' for fire and police. There's a major team effort responding to just one report of a bad smell coming from the east-side waste treatment plant. All the responders are saying that nothing is wrong, nothing smells bad, no "symptoms".... but they're continuing to investigate. This has been going on for an hour.
Puzzling. Normally a single report of a bad smell is (quite properly) dismissed. Bad smells come and go. Maybe the caller farted and didn't know it, or maybe his car's catalytic converter farted. Waste disposal plants handle waste, so they sometimes emit smells despite all controls.
Dozens of simultaneous reports would deserve a response, but this clearly isn't dozens. Just one.
Why is this single report generating such a big response? Was the caller powerful? Or is this a training exercise?
Later: Maybe the caller saw the Northern Lights and thought it was a toxic cloud? The color certainly looks chloriney. The responders mentioned looking for a cloud.
¶ 1:34 AM 
