UPDATE, 11:18 a.m.: Real-Time 911 shows the call is now closed. The P-I says firefighters report the leak was caused by a ruptured pipe. More from SeattlePI.com is here.

Seattle Fire Department personnel have responded to a "major" natural gas leak in the 3200 block of Harvard Ave. E.

The building, a 1920s-era apartment that also houses several businesses, was reportedly evacuated.

Casey McNerthney at SeattlePI.com reports that fire crews reported that gas in the building's boiler room was turned off at 10:50 a.m. McNerthney reports that fire officials say there were no injuries.

The emergency call is still active at this time (11:15 a.m.).

Cecilia Grevson of the Eastlake Community Council's Emergency Preparedness committee is looking for 20 good Eastlake residents to receive free emergency training from the city.

The training comes under the City's Office of Emergency Management's SNAP (Seattle Neighborhoods Actively Prepare) program. SNAP offers a variety of emergency preparedness classes.

Grevson has eight people who want to take the SNAP course and is hoping to find 12 more. The training would be either June 12 or 19 (both are Saturdays) starting at 10 a.m. The course takes eight hours. Training would be in the Eastlake neighborhood.

Included in the training will be first aid, CPR, disaster triage operations, patient exam and injury treatment, lifting and moving patients.

"It is free and very well worth it," Grevson says. "I just finished this course on April 24th at Magnuson Park."

She's also looking for people who may have already had the training so she can add them to the ECC's emergency preparedness team.

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Rochelle Ogershok from Metro e-mailed today to clairfy about when Metro's Emergency Network plans, with its special bare-bones bus schedules, will go into effect.

It won't be used for regular snow storms, she explains, only where there is "severe" winter weather like the pounding we took last December. From her e-mail:

'During more typical snow events, riders will be able use the Internet to quickly see which buses in the Metro system are on snow route based on “geographic area.” Green will indicate buses are operating on normal routes, yellow will signify minor reroutes (primarily in higher elevation areas), and red will alert customers that buses in the entire geographic area are on snow route or are being significantly impacted by snow."

You can sign up for e-mail and cell-phone alerts and find out more about emergency's a Metro's special web page.

Our previous post about Metro and City of Seattle snow plans for Eastlake is here.