One of our firefighters, he was walking across the street in front of it at that moment. Had several pretty good facial lacerations but was released last night.
I used to do construction, building subdivisions. Pierced gas lines are not too uncommon, but it’s usually small lines that weren’t exactly where the “as builts” said they were supposed to be. We would just babysit the line until the gas company could get it fixed. This sounds like it must’ve been spewing a lot of gas for a while. Either a big line or a complete unawareness that a house was filling up.
Yeah not uncommon. We were there about an hour for the gas leak, strong smell but no one knew exactly where the leak was. With underground horizontal drilling, once it is punctured it is hard to say exactly where it was punctured from when you started smelling it, or what it is eventually leaking into with that pressure.
Yeah, horizontal would most definitely complicate things. We had it easy, we would always know if one got hit because it would almost always be vertical. You’d even see dirt blowing up out of the hole sometimes, and you’d definitely hear it coming out. And smell it.
Or somebody didn’t locate it properly.
