NewsApril 2, 2013
This election day morning isn't the typical one in Cape Girardeau. Voters and poll workers had to be evacuated from the Arena Building this morning because of suspicion of a gas leak. The situation was quickly resolved, though, and workers and voters allowed back in the building just before 8 a.m. A pilot light on an oven was out, causing a gas smell, according to authorities...
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Members of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department order the evacuation of the A.C. Brase Arena Building as they investigate a reported gas leak Tuesday, April 2. The building is the polling place for the Seventh and 17th Precincts. The Fire Department discovered the source of the leak, a pilot light on a stove, and the polls were reopened just before 8 a.m., after being closed for approximately 20 minutes. (Adam Vogler)
Members of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department order the evacuation of the A.C. Brase Arena Building as they investigate a reported gas leak Tuesday, April 2. The building is the polling place for the Seventh and 17th Precincts. The Fire Department discovered the source of the leak, a pilot light on a stove, and the polls were reopened just before 8 a.m., after being closed for approximately 20 minutes. (Adam Vogler)

This election day morning isn't the typical one in Cape Girardeau.

Voters and poll workers had to be evacuated from the Arena Building this morning because of suspicion of a gas leak. The situation was quickly resolved, though, and workers and voters allowed back in the building just before 8 a.m. A pilot light on an oven was out, causing a gas smell, according to authorities.

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The Arena Building is one of the city's busiest polls, with several precincts voting there.

County Clerk Kara Clark Summers said poll workers secured ballots and iPads used for poll books before evacuating. The evacuation would have been more complicated in a busier election, but with low turnout relatively few voters were at the polls.

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