Article: Ruptured gas line spurs evacuation of office building?

By William Kaempffer Register Staff

NEW HAVEN -- An office building at the Science Park business complex was evacuated Wednesday after a backhoe ruptured a high- pressure natural gas line, causing a significant leak.

There was no explosion, but the situation was "extremely hazardous," said Fire Department Battalion Chief John King

The problem started at about 10:30 a.m. when a backhoe digging at the construction site for a new parking garage severed the plastic, eight-inch line. The fire alarm sounded the evacuation at the 25 Science Park office building, which is occupied by many Yale University offices, a few minutes later.

Lisa Stadolnick, who works in Yale's procurement office on the ...

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