Dallas police, fire, and Atmos Energy responded to a reported gas leak at the Alexan Riveredge Apartments in the Design District neighborhood of the city this morning. <\/p>\n
Dallas police assisted with traffic control; Atmos shut off the gas and is fixing the affected line; and Dallas Fire-Rescue transported two Atmos contract workers to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The condition of the workers who were hospitalized is unclear at the time of this writing. Fire-Rescue said their injuries were “non-critical.” The fire department said no civilians or firefighters were hurt, “and there was no impact to the apartment or neighboring businesses.”<\/p>\n
The fire department said, “A contractor was pressure testing a gas line, which somehow exploded during the process.”<\/p>\n
The fire department could not say whether the incident that happened this morning is related to the initial gas leak that displaced hundreds<\/a> more than a week ago. Many tenants could not return to their homes for nearly a week<\/a> after.<\/p>\n Atmos released a statement which reads in full: “Earlier this morning, Atmos Energy was performing routine maintenance on a pipeline near 1200 Turtle Creek Boulevard in Dallas. That process involved testing the line with air and did not involve natural gas. Our contractor experienced a worksite event, but natural gas service to area was not affected, and there was no damage to our pipeline.”<\/p>\n Atmos said safety was their highest priority and thanked Dallas Fire-Rescue.<\/p>\n It does not appear that residents are being evacuated, but traffic is blocked due construction in the area, affecting some businesses.<\/p>\n If you suspect a natural gas leak, leave the area immediately and from a safe distance call 911 and Atmos Energy’s 24-hour toll-free emergency number at 866-322-8667.\u202f To learn more about natural gas home safety, visit\u00a0atmosenergy.com\/safety\/home-safety<\/a>.<\/p>\n Check back and refresh this page for the latest updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas police, fire, and Atmos Energy responded to a reported gas leak at the Alexan Riveredge Apartments in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-450415","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\/450415","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=450415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}