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Wildewood Gas Leak Response Called Fiasco
Resident says confusion reigns supreme as construction workers buzz around on routine work and residents are either told nothing or blocked from leaving homes...letter to the editor
CALIFORNIA (April 26, 2006) ---- Washington Gas at 10 am warned the 911 Center that they would have a 30 minute response...at 10:23 am, they updated their response as being another 45 minutes....if they sell gas in this area, why don't they have repair crews in the area?
Some volunteers fail to answer call for help at gas line rupture...squad from Hollywood and engine from Bay District Co. 9 failed to answer call for response to a gas line break on White Oak Parkway at 10 am today, many others are on the scene... construction workers ripped up another natural gas line during construction, a fairly regular occurrence at Stanley Martin's home construction site at Wildewood. Washington Gas has been called to shut down and repair the line and a hazmat incident of major proportions is being called out with some fire units not responding to the call while several trucks and engines are spreading out and taking up precautionary positions. Will construction crews stop wasting the time of volunteers who have to respond to these incidents? Firefighters can't put out a gas explosion, only the resulting fires... The county government has a fine system in place for false burglar alarm calls at homes and businesses, why not a user tax going to the volunteer fire and rescue companies for responses caused by reckless digging by construction crews? If you dig into a underground utility without calling Miss Utility at your home, you can be liable for repairs. Will builders have to pay a fine for having all of the volunteer firefighters respond? Not likely, due to the cozy relationships between the builders and the good old boy government....Firefighters are evacuating homes along Willow Creek Way and ordering all vehicles to not be started so as not to set off sparks in the gas leak area....wind is not on the side of the firefighters as it is barely moving and not aiding at dissipating the gas fumes....many of the homes being evacuated are vacant while some new homes are occupied....latest report on winds is that some of the fumes are being dispersed....a puncture was placed in a six inch gas line, firefighters now report it to be a small puncture from an outrigger on a excavating machine...
Motorcycle Crash Takes Life
Man didn't wear
helmet on test drive of bike
 Untalented Mustang Sally wrecks school bus on Chancellors Run Road ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by James Antone |
Man Sought for Murder at Monks Captured
After Trek to Philly,
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Child hurt in trailer fire story |
Killer Behind the Wheel Takes Two Lives
Driver suspected of being under influence struck two vehicles in hit and run action on Rt. 231 near Prince Frederick before running a private ambulance off the road and into a truck on Rt. 4 near German Chapel Road. Calvert Sheriff Mike Evans told ST. MARY'S TODAY that the driver and patient in the ambulance were both killed by the at fault driver of a 1993 Thunderbird. Sheriff Evans said that Albert Reigle, Jr., 39, of Waldorf hit the rear of a AAA Ambulance Service vehicle causing it to spin out and cross the median strip and into the northbound lanes of Rt. 4 where it was struck by a 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck operated by Joseph DeBay, 45, of St. Leonard. The van then exploded into flames, reports Sheriff Evans. Killed were Natala Rose Lowery, the driver of the ambulance and Theresa Gant, 51, of White Sands. Reigle was taken to the PG Trauma Center while the operator of the pickup truck was treated and released at Calvert Memorial for minor injuries. |
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