THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF GAS PIPE RUPTURE: PIPE DAMAGE DUE TO THRID PARTY EXCAVATION ACTIVITIES IN THE VICINITY OF THE GAS PIPE. Service Restored To Hundreds Of Homes After Gas Break In Rogers Park, Chicago by a crew of the water department.

THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF GAS PIPE RUPTURE:  PIPE DAMAGE DUE TO THRID PARTY EXCAVATION ACTIVITIES IN THE VICINITY OF THE GAS PIPE.

Service Restored To Hundreds Of Homes After Gas Break In Rogers Park, Chicago by a crew of the water department.

December 26, 2014 6:05 PM

 (CBS) – All natural gas service is back on this morning- for 200 homes in the Rogers Park neighborhood affected by a gas main break.

There was no heat overnight to those homes near the 2500 block of West Fargo Avenue.

A crew from the water department accidentally hit a gas main Friday afternoon “causing some sort of substance to shoot out of the pipes”  (obviously, natural gas shoot out of the broken gas pipe, as hundreds of people were without gas service”.

Several homes were evacuated. Warming buses were provided for people without gas service.

Peoples Gas worked through the night to repair the problem and get the neighborhood back online.

No injuries were reported.