100s evacuate downtown South Bend after gas leak

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Authorities have shut off a gas leak almost four hours after a break in a high-pressure natural gas line forced hundreds of people to evacuate buildings in downtown South Bend.

Police Capt. Phil Trent says the leak sounded like a jet engine when he arrived on the scene soon after the leak was reported about 8:20 a.m. Thursday.

Northern Indiana Public Service Co. spokesman Mike Charbonneau says the line was damaged by a contractor working on a street project.

Trent says several hundred people evacuated the four-square-block area but that no injuries or other damage was reported.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101007/ap_on_re_us/us_gas_leak

[sinkingfeeling]

1. But there's no money for our aging infrastructure. Wonder how old the gas lines under South Bend are

[jdlh8894]

2. Not sure how old or new

Hit a gas line w/a backhoe and it is going to BREAK.