Hazmat - Gas Leak
A Sioux Falls neighborhood is back to normal Tuesday night after a gas leak that prompted an evacuation. But when crews arrived they weren’t sure just how dangerous the situation was. So they quickly had a few dozen homeowners leave their homes.
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| There are some frayed nerves tonight after an evacuation was ordered this afternoon for a mobile home park in the 1500 block of Burnside Avenue in Sioux Falls. That evacuation came after a gas line in the area was punctured. Fire rescue thought the worst was about to happen and that's when they took action. It is the type of scene that makes a pit in your stomach. Flashing lights all other the place. People standing in confused clusters, trying to fully understand what is happening. Polo Baiz was one of those people. "They knocked on the door and told me to get out because they could see there was gas leaking." Polo lives at the Shady Acres Mobile Home Park and was one of many who were told to get out of their homes and go...quickly....by Sioux Falls Fire Rescue. "We evacuated 43 trailers in the complex as a precaution." Captain Troy Scandin with Sioux Falls Fire Rescue says a resident of the mobile home park was trying to build a deck when he punctured a half-inch gas lines about six inches underground. But Fire Rescue was worried he may have punctured a 6 inch high capacity gas line. "We were worried for public safety and for the structures." So firefighters went door to door to get people out of the park and those people, like Brianne Carias, were nervous and scared and not sure what would happen next. "I knew that we should be careful though right now....since all that gas is over there. We gotta be really careful." Among Fire Rescue's concerns: there was no breeze while the line was leaking, meaning any gas in the area was just hanging around instead of dissipating. |
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Gas leak prompts evacuation order in Sioux Falls
Posted: Jun 04, 2013 9:02 PM CST Updated: Jun 04, 2013 10:42 PM CST
There are some frayed nerves tonight after an evacuation was ordered this afternoon for a mobile home park in the 1500 block of Burnside Avenue in Sioux Falls.
That evacuation came after a gas line in the area was punctured.
Fire rescue thought the worst was about to happen and that's when they took action.
It is the type of scene that makes a pit in your stomach.
Flashing lights all other the place.
People standing in confused clusters, trying to fully understand what is happening.
Polo Baiz was one of those people. "They knocked on the door and told me to get out because they could see there was gas leaking."
Polo lives at the Shady Acres Mobile Home Park and was one of many who were told to get out of their homes and go...quickly....by Sioux Falls Fire Rescue.
"We evacuated 43 trailers in the complex as a precaution." Captain Troy Scandin with Sioux Falls Fire Rescue says a resident of the mobile home park was trying to build a deck when he punctured a half-inch gas lines about six inches underground.
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