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.