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About 100 people evacuated after pickup ruptures apartment gas line

Posted at 1:37 pm May 10, 2013
By John Huotari 1 Comment

Broadway Apartments Gas Leak

The Broadway Apartments on East Madison Road were evacuated Friday morning after a pickup truck rolled down a small hill and ruptured a two-inch gas line. (Photo by Tom Scott)

Emergency workers started evacuating about 100 people at an apartment complex and day care center on Friday morning after a pickup truck ruptured a two-inch natural gas line in central Oak Ridge.

The apparently unoccupied pickup truck, which might have popped out of gear, rolled down a small hill at Broadway Apartments on East Madison Road and into a gas meter, which was attached to the gas line, Oak Ridge Fire Chief Darryl Kerley said.

“It made a pretty significant leak,” he said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Oak Ridge, Police and Fire, Top Stories Tagged With: Alexander Inn, Broadway Apartments, Chapel on the Hill, Darryl Kerley, East Madison Road, gas line, leak, natural gas, Oak Ridge Fire Department, Oak Ridge Utility District

No injuries, exposures in Oliver Springs sulfur dioxide leak

Posted at 1:48 pm February 7, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Oliver Springs Sulfur Dioxide Leak

Howie Rose, director of the Roane County Office of Emergency Services, pictured at right front, briefs firefighters responding to a sulfur dioxide leak at the Oliver Springs Waste Water Treatment Plant on Joel Road on Wednesday morning. (Photos by Tom Scott)

No one was injured or exposed to sulfur dioxide in a leak at the Oliver Springs wastewater treatment plant on Wednesday, but a small group of nearby residents were asked to stay in their homes as a precaution, City Manager Tina Treece said.

The small leak from a system connected to a 150-pound cylinder of sulfur dioxide was discovered by workers who heard an alarm when they arrived at the plant on Joel Road at about 8 a.m. Wednesday.

Treece said there was no odor in the air and it turned out that the leak posed no danger, but officials wanted to make sure conditions were safe for residents and workers.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Anderson County, Government, Oak Ridge, Oliver Springs, Oliver Springs, Police and Fire, Roane County, Top Stories Tagged With: Anderson County, hazardous materials, Howie Rose, Joel Road, leak, Oak Ridge Fire Department, Oliver Springs, Roane County Office of Emergency Services, sulfur dioxide, Tina Treece, wastewater treatment plant

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