Reported gas leak prompts Arena Building evac

This election day morning isn't the typical one in Cape Girardeau.

Voters and poll workers had to be evacuated from the Arena Building this morning because of suspicion of a gas leak. The situation was quickly resolved, though, and workers and voters allowed back in the building just before 8 a.m. A pilot light on an oven was out, causing a gas smell, according to authorities.

The Arena Building is one of the city's busiest polls, with several precincts voting there.

County Clerk Kara Clark Summers said poll workers secured ballots and iPads used for poll books before evacuating. The evacuation would have been more complicated in a busier election, but with low turnout relatively few voters were at the polls.