Dozens of residents of Dallas\u2019 Design District are waiting to get back into their apartments after a gas leak was discovered nearby. It\u2019s been nearly a week since they\u2019ve had access, and officials said the wait is not over.<\/p>\n
Where Turtle Creek Boulevard meets E. Levee Street, work continues throughout the day around the Factory Design District Apartments.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been this way since last Friday evening, when Atmos Energy identified what they\u2019ve called a \u201cnatural gas release.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dallas Fire Rescue said all 325 units were evacuated. NBC 5 was told residents were given hotel accommodation. Still, they said it\u2019s been much too long without a definitive timeline.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince Friday they say \u2018oh they\u2019re working on the leak\u2019 and then \u2018oh it\u2019s going to be tomorrow morning\u2019 and then \u2018it\u2019s going to be 12:00 Saturday like 12:00 pm you\u2019re able to go back inside,\u2019\u201d said frustrated resident Chiara Cappelletti.<\/p>\n
Six days later, tenants are still not back inside their units. Our cameras were on scene on Friday night as the situation unfolded. At the time, residents did not know what would come next.<\/p>\n
In the latest statement from Atmos Energy, NBC 5 learned restoration was done in phases. <\/p>\n
The press release said in part, \u201cAfter the building has been cleared for gas, Oncor restores power to the building one floor at a time while DFR personnel check for potential electrical issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
Atmos said phases one and two are now complete, and in a final step, the building was turned back over to apartment management.<\/p>\n
Dallas Fire Rescue, also in a recent statement, said residents will likely not be allowed back into their apartments until Friday. The department said, according to management, deep cleaning and repairs are needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to go to work; I have to take my child to school,\u201d said Cappelletti. \u201cYou don\u2019t want to be stuck in a hotel; you want to be back home, but you\u2019re not able to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of residents of Dallas\u2019 Design District are waiting to get back into their apartments after a gas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-445874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}