Elizabethtown Gas responded and determined the odor was not the result of a gas leak.
Elizabethtown Gas determined there was no gas leak at a business in Hackettstown. (lehighvalleylive.com file photo)Several businesses were evacuated Wednesday morning after police responded to a report of a natural gas odor in Hackettstown.
The report came in at 10:34 a.m. about the odor at Slingers Games, 80 Main St. Police, along with the town's fire department, ordered the evacuation after arriving there, according to a statement from town police.
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Neighboring businesses were also evacuated.
"Elizabethtown Gas arrived on scene and determined there was no gas leak," the police statement says, adding the cause of the odor is "undetermined."
The evacuation lasted about an hour, and no one was injured, the statement says.
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