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A ruptured gas line at a Mountain View construction site on Oct. 24 led to a site evacuation and temporarily closed traffic in both directions on Shoreline Boulevard.
On Monday around 2:31 p.m., Mountain View Communications received a 911 call from the 700 block of West Middlefield Road, the city said in a statement. The reporting party said a construction crew was excavating when they hit and ruptured a gas line.
Mountain View Fire Department units were dispatched at 2:32 p.m. and arrived on the scene at 2:36 p.m. The construction site was immediately evacuated and police closed traffic in both directions of Shoreline Boulevard while firefighters were on scene.
“Fire crews deployed a charged water line to protect the scene from the potential ignition of flammable gas,” the city said. “A PG&E crew arrived on the scene and inserted a plug in the broken four-inch supply line to stop the flow of natural gas. Control of the broken pipe was acquired at 4 p.m.”
There were no reported injuries and traffic was reopened in the southbound direction of Shoreline while PG&E crews worked at the site.
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