Explosion prompts evacuation at Saskatchewan gas pumping facility
Posted Oct 11, 2014 2:17 pm.
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An explosion and fire at a gas pumping station in Saskatchewan has prompted an evacuation.
RCMP say the blast happened this morning at a TransGas facility near Prud’homme, northeast of Saskatoon.
Police say there have been no injuries reported.
The area around the facility that’s being evacuated is just over three kilometres.
They say the fire has been contained to the pumping station but that it continues to burn.
RCMP couldn’t immediately say how many people were affected by the evacuation, but say it’s a rural area and that no major highways or roads are affected.
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