Thursday, January 22, 2015

A GAS LINE WAS RUPTURED THURSDAY MORNING DURING THE DEMOLITION OF A BUILDING. THE LEAK CLOSES DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE STREETS IN SOUTH CAROLINA




A GAS LINE WAS RUPTURED THURSDAY MORNING DURING THE DEMOLITION OF A BUILDING.  THE LEAK CLOSES DOWNTOWN GREENVILLE STREETS IN SOUTH CAROLINA


                         The gas leak was reported on Dr. David C. Francis Street.

January 22, 2015

A gas line was ruptured Thursday morning during the demolition of a building on a vacant lot downtown, the Greenville Fire Department said.

Piedmont Natural Gas and a Haz-Mat unit responded to the lot on Dr. David C. Francis Street, across from McBee Station. Police closed off access to the street from E. Broad Street to McBee.

Residents at McBee Station were notified, but there was no need for evacuation, Inspector Tito Dendy, spokesperson for the Fire Department, said.

The workers at the site thought the valve to a two-inch gas line was off, but it wasn't, Dendy said.