Authorities ordered the evacuation of about 150 homes in a Ventura neighborhood on Sunday because of “potentially hazardous levels of hydrocarbon vapors” and placed another 2,600 homes under a warning to possibly leave.
The first evacuation order from the Ventura Police Department at 9:53 a.m. urged residents along Bayshore Avenue to “leave the area as soon as you can.”
Jennifer Buckley, a city spokeswoman, said there was no estimate for when the evacuation order would be lifted
The evacuation is connected to an ongoing incident after gasoline leaked into a sewer line along Monmouth Way between East Harbor and Pierpont Boulevards Thursday. It triggered evacuations and warnings that were lifted later that day.
An emergency alert update from the city on Sunday said Ventura Water repaired the line where the leak was located, but “the extent of the leak continues to be investigated in the sewer system to mitigate the fumes caused by the gasoline.”
A temporary evacuation site has been established in the lower parking lot at Ventura College.