Lehi woman thankful for swift response after reported gas leak inside her home
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- A Lehi Fire Department unit is pictured Thursday, May 15, 2025. Crews responded to a gas leak in a Lehi neighborhood that prompted over a dozen evacuations.
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- An Enbridge Gas technician responds to a Lehi residence where a gas leak was reported Thursday morning, May 15, 2025.
Thursday morning took an unexpected and nerve-wracking turn for several residents in a north Lehi neighborhood after a gas leak inside a home led to multiple evacuations for a time.
Lehi City Communications Manager Jeanteil Livingston said the Lehi Fire Department responded just after 9 a.m. to the reported leak at a residence near 2700 North and 800 West.
The homeowner, Julie Adams, said she called Enbridge Gas after smelling gas inside of her home.
She described the scent as something she’d never smelled before.
Adams was heading to work, so she asked a neighbor to keep a lookout for the gas company, but crews arrived before she even made it out of the neighborhood.
“So they got there, and immediately upon opening the door, their meters were just going off the charts and they would not even enter the house,” she explained.
Once inside, Enbridge technicians detected “dangerously high levels of natural gas,” according to Livingston.
Out of an abundance of caution, Enbridge technicians requested the assistance of the Lehi Fire Department.
A total of 14 homes in the cul-de-sac neighborhood were evacuated, including Adams’, while crews assessed all surrounding homes for the presence of gas.
“It was determined that the issue was isolated to the original residence,” said Livingston in a press release. “The gas supply to the home was shut off, and crews began monitoring gas levels inside the structure at 15-minute intervals using detection equipment.”
A nearby neighbor, who only wanted to be identified as Rozanne and lives in one of the evacuated homes, said her window was open and she could hear the commotion from the fire trucks outside.
When the fire department knocked on her door, they said she didn’t have to evacuate because of where her home sits but advised that she should consider it and to take her pets along with her.
“I was going to stay, but within the next 15 minutes, I started getting a headache, so I decided that I would probably need to leave,” Rozanne told the Daily Herald.
Adams, who works at a nearby hospital as a nurse, said before leaving her home, she also became nauseated.
“I’ve been treated by my fellow nurses at the hospital with oxygen, and I took a couple of Tylenol (pills), and then I’m feeling better,” she told a group of reporters.
Enbridge Gas spokesperson Jorgan Hofeling said crews ultimately determined the source of the leak was due to a gas stove burner that had been left on.
“When we got there, we found that the home did have some gas in it, so we had to ventilate it before we could go in,” she told the Daily Herald in a phone call Thursday afternoon. “They were able to shut that burner off all the way and then completely ventilate the home.”
Technicians and the fire department also conducted subsequent checks to make sure that gas levels throughout the home were low.
By noon, evacuation orders were lifted and residents were able to return home.
However, technicians from Enbridge Gas were still on scene at Adams’ home as of 1:30 Thursday afternoon.
Neighbor Rozanne said she left for about two hours before coming back and getting the all clear to go back inside her home from the fire department.
At least two natural gas incidents led to home explosions last year in American Fork and South Jordan; both resulted in fatalities.
With that in mind, Rozanne expressed her relief that Thursday’s issue was resolved and didn’t evolve into a much more dangerous outcome.
“I was worried for my friend whose home that was at. I was really worried for her,” she said.
Adams expressed her gratitude to the quick response of Enbridge Gas and the fire department to address the situation and for the kindness of her neighbors.
“I realized when it evacuated my neighbors that it was really serious,” she said.
Lehi City officials said no injuries were reported.
