SHAH ALAM: Residents of a housing estate are worried after the detection of ammonia fumes here.
Shah Alam OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Iqbal Ibrahim said a police report was lodged on Sunday (May 21) night.
A resident near Jalan Sungai Rasau 32/24 in Seksyen 32 here had told the police that a strong smell had been detected from a drain.
A Hazmat team from the Selangor Fire and Rescue Department identified the smell as ammonia and the source came from a nearby frozen food storage facility.
"The management of the facility said that they had been performing scheduled maintenance, but they had not realised that there had been an unintended backlog at the drainage system, causing the smell," he said in a statement on Monday (May 22).
Firefighters successfully reduced the fumes by flushing water into the drainage system.
When contacted, Selangor Fire and Rescue Department assistant director (operations) Hafisham Mohd Noor said that flushing works concluded at 5am today.
He added that the distance between the drain and the housing area was around 30 feet (9.144m).
