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Evacuation orders and warnings issued for hazardous gas and odor incident in Ventura

By Andrew Gillies

Evacuation orders and warnings issued for hazardous gas and odor incident in Ventura

VENTURA, Calif. - Evacuation orders have been issued for all of Bayshore Avenue south of Coral Street and Seahorse Avenue west of Seaview Avenue due to an unknown gas and odor linked to a sewer pipeline near the Pierpont neighborhood in Ventura.

For the latest on this incident, visit the VC Emergency website.

A temporary evacuation point has been established in the lower parking lot of Ventura College at 4667 Telegraph Road in Ventura.

Evacuation warnings have also been issued for residents along Pierpont Boulevard between Greenock Lane and Seaward Avenue, and Harbor Boulevard and a shelter-in-place order is in effect for the area west of Pierpont Boulevard, south of San Pedro Street, north of Greenock Lane.

The map below shows the borders of the latest evacuation orders (the purple boxes), evacuation warnings (the orange box), and shelter-in-place orders (the yellow box).

There are also multiple road closure associated with this incident and they are listed below:

This is an evolving emergency response and more information will be added to this article as it becomes available.

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