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Crews stop nitrogen leak at GE Aviation in Cascade

The area has been cleared and roads are back open.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Crews are responding to the area of 33rd Street SE and Patterson Avenue SE on a report of a nitrogen gas tank leak.

According to the Kent County Sheriff's Office, they received a call just before 7 p.m. Cascade Fire Chief Adam Magers said the gas leak came from a storage tank in GE Aviation.

Magers said the only danger to the public would have been asphyxiation for people who were in the area.

The road was blocked off for a short time but is now open to the public.

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