Fairport Harbor, Ohio - Integrated pressure in gas lines led to an explosion of home fires and a series of brief evacuation on a cold Monday morning for a village of about 3,000 Ohio people get hurt one of them appeared.
At least 15 fires in houses, apartments and other buildings in Fairport Harbor, a village on the shores of Lake Erie about 30 miles northeast of Cleveland reported. All were extinguished by the afternoon, Tom Talcott, "said deputy fire chief in nearby Mentor.
Rendered uninhabitable fired several structures, "said Talcott. Officials were still in control property in the afternoon to ensure that no account of the gas is uninhabited during the day built.
Temperatures have been evacuated and below zero during the time of the explosion, and people who went to the community center. Jeff Zidonis, spokesman for gas company Dominion East Ohio can not say if the cold is a factor in the printing problems that led to the explosion.
"It could be," he said. "Of course, we have one of the coldest nights we had had in two years. But this is speculation at this time. "
An evacuation was ordered because the fire overwhelmed with calls reporting the smell of gas and could not answer all. After reinforcements arrived, residents were asked to remove the gas lines and stay inside when the situation stabilizes.
Residents who evacuated back to the community center began in late morning.
Police officers and more than a dozen fire trucks had met in the middle, where residents were concerned by the dogs on a leash behind, awaiting the green light to go home.
"Hopefully we will Explode and all go home and make sure our house is in order, and ensure there are no water pipes against freezing," said Dorothy Tye, 45 years, which left at 7:30 clock after the discovery that the oven did not work. "That's what we hope."
Tye who evacuated with her husband and her elderly mother, was also along the family pet rabbit Snickers introduced.
Authorities did not indicate the number of residents leaving the area. Talcott said that residents should not venture outside, while gas crews continue to spread throughout the city.
"We have a number of roads blocked by fire hoses, very icy conditions in the runoff, and we are better off if people stay and place," he said.
Dominion East Ohio, said the pipeline system was back to normal pressure and the problems seem to be confined to one part of town.
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Associated Press reporter Thomas J. Kantele Franko and Sheeran contributed to this report.
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