Gas line rupture repaired in Wantagh
About 75 workers renovating an unoccupied Wantagh building were evacuated Thursday after a backhoe ripped open a natural-gas line, Nassau County police and a utility spokeswoman said.
Police said there were no injuries when a line at 3000 Burns Ave. was ruptured at about 11:47 a.m.
Wendy Ladd of National Grid said repairs were completed at 12:40 p.m.
The leak also partially closed two roads, Emerson Place and Wilson Avenue, until repair work was completed, police said.
'I've never seen fire sitting on the water' Three Newsday photographers talk to NewsdayTV's Macy Egeland about covering the tragic crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996.
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