Ford is pausing production at its Flat Rock assembly plant, as a gas leak at the location has caused a state of emergency in the areas surrounding it.

“We’re not going to prioritize building vehicles this week,” T.R. Reid, a Ford spokesperson, told The Detroit Free Press. “There are higher priorities right now.”

A worker at the plant, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the outlet that they had received a robocall from the manufacturer saying hourly workers would only return to the plant Monday.

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That’s despite the plant technically being safe to be in, according to Ford, which said that experts have been monitoring the air and found no safety issue.

Initially, Ford had believed the leak to be relatively small and to stem from a pipe that carried gasoline into the plant for the vehicles it builds. However, a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, said Friday that it is estimated that between 1,000 and 3,000 gallons of gasoline spilled from the leak at the Ford plant, per The Detroit Free Press.

EPA and state officials sent out multiple haz-mat response teams and discovered vapors at flammable levels in some homes and near manhole covers. Two schools were also closed as a precaution because of high levels of benzene, a highly flammable chemical that is also a known carcinogen.

Ford has accepted the blame for the leak and says it is working to discover the source of the leak and will not treat it as an isolated event. Although it hopes that similar problems won’t happen at other plants, it says it will take what it learns from the investigation at this plant and apply it to every factory it operates.

The automaker also said it’s creating a $1 million fund to help the Flat Rock community and residents affected by the gas leak.

“Details haven’t all been worked out about what it might cover and how it will be provided. The city will administer it,” Reid said. “We apologized for this but that’s inadequate. People are being affected. Lives are being disrupted and we’ve got an obligation to try and help.”

It is also working with federal, state, and local officials to neutralize the threat brought on by the gas leak.