UPDATE: Medical Center Gas Main Break Under Control
Nicor had the gas main that contractors broke clamped off within 15 minutes, fire officials said.
Fire officials and representatives of Pronger Smith Medical Care, which had to be evacuated late this morning following a gas main break at the La Grange Road facility, said things were returning to normal by noon. "Within an hour we were done and leaving there," Tinley Park Assistant Fire Chief Mark Bettenhausen said. The Tinley Park Fire Department got the call of a gas main break at the facility at 17495 La Grange Road at about 10:30 a.m. There was no fire and no explosion, just a pipe leaking gas due to worker error. "A contractor was doing some excavating on the southeast portion of the property and hit the gas service that went into the building" Bettenhausen said. Evacuation of 200 to 250 employees and patients had started before …
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