CIRCLE PINES, Minn. — Deputies used an unlikely software inside a Twin Cities sports activities area Thursday to mitigate a harmful ammonia leak.

The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office says deputies had been known as to Centennial Sports Arena in Circle Pines after its ice floor’s refrigeration system broke down, resulting in an ammonia leak inside the world.

“The levels of ammonia in the rink were 400ppm (the safe exposure limit is 35ppm for no longer than 15 minutes),” the sheriff’s workplace wrote in a collection of posts on X, previously Twitter.

Crews from the Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Mounds View Fire Department rushed to the scene, and had been introduced with a serious dilemma: if this did not get mounted inside a number of hours, the ice would soften, and ice restoration would take two weeks — creating a serious headache for all of the native hockey groups that rely upon it.

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Also, even when all followers from each native division had been delivered to the world, it in all probability would not be sufficient to beat the clock.

Thankfully, somebody considered the ACSO’s airboat, which was delivered to the world and successfully ventilated the constructing with time to spare.

“Thank you Spring Lake Park, Blaine, Mounds View Fire Dept. for keeping the building secure and creatively problem-solving a solution!” the sheriff’s division wrote.

It took “a few five-minute bursts of air” from the airboat to drop the ammonia degree right down to a protected zone.

The 31-year-old arena, the primary within the Twin Cities with an Olympic-size ice floor, underwent an $8.5 million renovation in 2019.