Downtown natural-gas leak resolved
Incident was result of construction crew hitting underground line, says police spokesperson
Emergency responders were on the scene of natural-gas leak in downtown Fredericton on Tuesday morning, and the situation was contained and cleared after a couple of hours.
At 8:48 a.m. Tuesday, the Fredericton Fire Department issued an advisory through social media that its firefighters were responding to a potentially dangerous situation in the downtown area.
“Your Fredericton Fire Department is responding to a natural-gas incident at the intersection of Regent Street and Needham Street,” it stated. “Please avoid the area.”
Fredericton Police Force spokesperson Sonya Gilks told the Fredericton Independent that the call came into at 8:39 a.m.
“Construction hit a gas line,” she wrote in an email. “Fire, police and Liberty Gas all responded.”
She said emergency responders and gas-utility officials had resolved the situation and were clearing the scene at about 10 a.m.
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