{
  "id": "2026-10-24-university-of-kentucky-prall-street-south-limestone-gas-leak",
  "slug": "university-of-kentucky-prall-street-south-limestone-gas-leak-2026-10-24",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Kentucky",
    "shortName": "UK",
    "state": "KY",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "UK Alert / Crime Bulletin",
    "enrollment": 33000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2026-10-24",
    "type": "gas-leak",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "Gas leak alert at a campus-edge intersection, cleared about an hour later",
    "headlinePublic": "Gas leak alert at a campus-edge intersection, cleared about an hour later",
    "summary": "At 12:15 PM EDT on Saturday, October 24, 2026, the University of Kentucky posted a [UK ALERT](https://x.com/universityofky/status/2114028005966430310) for a gas leak at Prall St. and S. Limestone, telling anyone who smelled gas to evacuate and everyone else to avoid the area, and posted that [the emergency condition had passed](https://x.com/universityofky/status/2114045313207902698) at 1:24 PM EDT.",
    "outcome": "The emergency condition ended by 1:24 PM EDT on October 24, 2026. The cause was not stated."
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2026-10-24T12:15:28-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "UK ALERT: Gas leak at Prall St. and S. Limestone. If you smell the odor of natural gas - evacuate. All others, AVOID THE AREA. https://t.co/XudV0ZWVf3",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/universityofky/status/2114028005966430310",
      "sourceDescription": "@universityofky post",
      "annotations": [
        "Read twice on 2026-11-09 (X search, then an independent post-id lookup); the two texts matched. HTML entities decoded; t.co links kept as posted.",
        "Gives a conditional instruction: evacuate if you smell gas, otherwise avoid the area.",
        "Links to uky.edu/alerts, which did not resolve from the box on 2026-11-09."
      ],
      "characterCount": 150
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestamp": "2026-10-24T13:24:14-04:00",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "The emergency condition has passed and you may safely resume your regularly scheduled activity. More info at https://t.co/XudV0ZWnpv",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/universityofky/status/2114045313207902698",
      "sourceDescription": "@universityofky post",
      "annotations": [
        "Read twice on 2026-11-09 (X search, then an independent post-id lookup); the two texts matched. HTML entities decoded; t.co links kept as posted.",
        "Generic all-clear wording that does not name the location."
      ],
      "characterCount": 132
    }
  ],
  "context": "The alert linked to the university's [alerts page](https://www.uky.edu/alerts), which could not be reached when this case was written.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The conditional evacuate-or-avoid instruction let people act on what they could smell.",
    "The all-clear did not repeat the location."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "@universityofky: UK ALERT, gas leak at Prall St. and S. Limestone",
      "url": "https://x.com/universityofky/status/2114028005966430310",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-11-09"
    },
    {
      "title": "@universityofky: emergency condition has passed",
      "url": "https://x.com/universityofky/status/2114045313207902698",
      "type": "official-social",
      "accessDate": "2026-11-09"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "2026",
    "backfill-2026-10-12",
    "gas-leak",
    "public-r1",
    "kentucky",
    "all-clear"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-11-09",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-11-09",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}