Northwest schools evacuated due to gas leak
Posted Oct 11, 2011 9:10 pm.
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More then 1400 students are safe and uninjured after being evacuated from three northwest schools, late Tuesday morning.
Fire crews were called to an area near Queen Elizabeth Elementary, Junior and Senior high schools around 11:30 a.m. after receiving a call about a possible gas leak.
Elementary students were taken to Hillhurst community centre, while Junior High and High School students were taken to Crescent Heights High School.
Fire officials say someone digging in the area of 5th Avenue and 18th Street NW struck a 3-inch natural gas line.
There were no injures and the Calgary Fire Department’s Brian Brian McAsey tells 660News it’s not believed students were ever in any dancer, and the evacuation was simply done as a precaution.
