Two unusual events

kept Fayetteville firefighters busy last Sunday.

Diners at the

Waffle House at Ga. Highway 54 and Ginger Cake

Road were evacuated briefly due to a gas leak,

according to Fire Chief Alan Jones. It was a

minor occurrence, apparently a leak of carbon

dioxide from a cylinder that helps dispence

carbonated drinks.

Customers were not

kept outside very long, Jones said, before the

situation was controlled.

Sunday evening, the

TinselTown movie theater at the Fayette Pavilion

was closed early due to an identified odor in the

building, Jones said. Emergency personnel

answered a call shortly after 7 p.m. and were on

the scene about 45 minutes.

They found what

they believed to be the source of the odor, an

HVAC-type unit on the roof, and shut it off, but

the theater management was advised to close the

building until it could be checked out Monday

morning, and they did so.

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