Gas Line Fire Contained In Concord

CONCORD, CA — Grant Street was closed and some customers were without electricity because of a gas line fire Wednesday in Concord.

A construction crew hit a gas line, causing the fire, the Concord Police Department said on Twitter.

Police and fire personnel responded, as did PG&E, to the incident reported shortly before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 2700 block of Grant Street.

Electricity was shut off to the area and Grant Street was expected to remain closed at Frederick street for several hours as PG&E worked to cap the gas line, police said shortly before noon Wednesday.

"No structures are threatened, no evacuations are needed and the fire is contained to the roadway and a piece of construction equipment," police said.

PG&E confirmed that a construction crew not affiliated with PG&E dug into a 4-inch steel PG&E gas line at a Concord construction site around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, causing a fire.

PG&E immediately sent crews and the flow of gas from the line was stopped at 12:15 p.m., PG&E Spokesperson Tamar Sarkissian told Patch.

The gas fire damaged electrical lines in the area, prompting an outage that started at 11:11 a.m. and impacted 1,125 customers. Service was restored to the bulk of customers within 20 minutes, Sarkissian said. There were a remaining 147 customers without power as of 1 p.m., she said.

"The technique we used to stop the flow of gas prevented customers from losing gas service," Sarkissian said.