{"id":1377,"date":"2009-06-11T11:29:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2009-06-11T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:36:02","slug":"large-natural-gas-line-break-prompts-evacuation-of-homes-in-an-upscale-east-long-beach-neiborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Large Natural Gas Line Break Prompts Evacuation Of Homes In An Upscale East Long Beach Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p>At 8:34 am on the morning of June 11th, Long Beach Fire Department units responded to an alley that runs West of Flint and South of 6<sup>th<\/sup> Street to a report of large natural gas line break.\u00a0 Once on scene, they discovered a crew contracted by the Long Beach Gas Department had ruptured a 3-inch gas line.\u00a0 They were in the process of replacing the line when the break occurred.\u00a0 Long Beach Engine 14 crewmembers quickly isolated any potential ignition sources and evacuated 8 homes in the area of the leak.\u00a0 This evacuation was done as a precaution due to the high\u00a0risk of fire posed by the leaking gas.\u00a0 Firefighters manned a hose line while Gas Department crews worked to stem the flow from the fractured line.\u00a0 It took approximately 1 hour to mitigate the situation.\u00a0 Natural gas service was shut down to 10 homes in total.\u00a0 Fire Department units maintained a presence in the area until the air was cleared and the danger had passed.\u00a0 6 firefighters responded to this incident.\u00a0 Fortunately, no injuries or deaths were reported to citizens or to firefighters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 8:34 am on the morning of June 11th, Long Beach Fire Department units responded to an alley that runs West of Flint and South of 6th Street to a report of large natural gas line break.\u00a0 Once on scene, they discovered a crew contracted by the Long Beach Gas Department had ruptured a 3-inch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firechannel.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}