Many people from Brabant woke up with an NL-Alert on Thursday morning. Due to the leakage of a fragrance in the Belgian Tessenderloo-Ham (more than 30 kilometers from the border), gas smells can be smelled in a large part of the area around Eindhoven. The air is not dangerous according to the safety region.
In Luyksgestel and Bergeijk it smells very much like the gas smell. Further away in Schijndel, where the NL-Alert has also been sent, residents hardly smell anything.
According to the safety region, it is a fragrance that used to be used to give natural gas a scent and therefore it smells of gas in the environment.
Belgian media report that the leak is at Tessenderloo Chemie.
Due to the large number of reports that came in at the control room, it was decided to send an NL-Alert around a quarter to seven in the morning. This is done to ensure that actual incidents can be picked up. “The control room was flooded by bells. We first wanted to send a NL-Alert to just a part of the region, because otherwise everyone would wake up. We only received so many reports that we have decided to send the NL-Alert as quickly as possible,” says the safety region.
According to the safety region, the odor nuisance will take a longer period of time. The expectation is certainly until 9 a.m.
A spokesperson for the Brabant-Zuidoost security region reports that the scent can be smelled throughout East Brabant, but according to him, reports have already been received at the Brabant-Noord security region. He thinks that the scent can be observed in a large part of the south of the Netherlands.
There is no gas leak in Belgium, but a leak of a substance that ensures a gas smell. The spokesperson emphasizes that it is a low concentration of the fragrance and is not harmful. “If you suffer from this, close windows and doors and turn off the ventilation.”
The Brabant Alert site has been flat since the sending of NL-Alert.