How to detect a leak
Use your nose. If you smell or hear gas escaping inside a building or notice dirt blowing, bubbles in a puddle, or a hissing sound outside, there may be a gas leak.
As a safety precaution, Puget Sound Energy adds a distinctive rotten egg or sulfur-like odor to natural gas so you immediately can smell the smallest of leaks. For your safety, it is important that everyone in your household know how to recognize the odor of escaping natural gas.
Request a 'scratch-and-sniff' pamphlet
containing this odor (Please include your mailing address.) or
download a PDF file
of the safety pamphlet (without the "scratch-and-sniff" panel).
Do's & don'ts
If you smell natural gas inside a building:
Do....
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Leave the building.
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Use a neighbor's phone to call 911 and then Puget Sound Energy (day or night) toll free at 888-225-5773.
Do not...
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turn on or off any electrical switches.
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use the telephone.
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smoke.
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light a match or do anything that might create sparks.
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attempt to put out fires if a gas leak ignites.
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