gas leak

A gas leak at a chemical factory owned by a South Korean company in southern India has left at least 11 people dead and about 1,000 struggling to breathe

Police and Eversource crews responded to a gas main break in Meriden Saturday morning. The call came in just before 10 a.m. for an odor of natural gas in the area of Olive Street. Eversource has been working to locate the crack in the gas main, said officials. According to an Eversource spokesperson, there has been no evacuations issued at…

Several roads were closed in Collinsville after a gas leak was detected on the roof of a local business. Canton firefighters responded to the Main Street vicinity at approximately 9:37 a.m. for a report of a gas odor in the nearby vicinity. Traffic was closed off to Main, Market and Front streets. Nearby apartments and businesses were also evacuated, according…

Part of a Manchester neighborhood was evacuated due to a gas leak Thursday.

Parts of downtown New London were evacuated and power out to thousands after a gas leak in the area of Bank and State streets Wednesday.

The major gas leak that caused evacuations in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Friday was started when city contractors checking water valves “inadvertently closed a gas valve” officials said Friday evening. The leak caused hundreds of people to be evacuated from their homes and two schools early in the morning, just over one year after the area was rocked by gas explosions...

A gas explosion was responsible for the likely destruction of a Howard County office building on Sunday morning, fire and EMS officials say.

Police and firefighters are responding to a construction-related natural gas leak on Sycamore Street and the intersection of Hebron Avenue and Sycamore Street is closed, according to police.

A natural gas leak at an apartment complex in Vernon prompted some evacuations on Wednesday afternoon but the leak is under control and it is safe for residents to return.

A gas leak caused traffic backups during the evening rush hour at Dixwell and Whitney avenues in Hamden Monday.

An apparent gas leak at Woodside Intermediate School in Cromwell prompted school officials to move students to Cromwell Middle School Friday morning, according to a post on the Cromwell Public Schools’ website.

Families were evacuated due to a carbon dioxide leak in Enfield Thursday morning and roads were shut down.

Paris’ deadliest fire in over a decade claimed 10 lives, sending fleeing residents to the roof to escape the flames that engulfed their apartment building before dawn Tuesday. A 40-year-old female resident, said to have a history of psychiatric problems, was detained near the eight-story building in the quiet neighborhood as police opened an investigation into voluntary arson resulting in...

Interstate 95 northbound in Orange has reopened after a crash and a gas leak, according to Connecticut State Police.

The death toll in a massive fire at an illegally tapped pipeline in Mexico has risen to 109 after 10 more injured people died at hospitals. Mexico’s Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said Friday that the latest victims who were severely burned died between Wednesday and early Friday. He said hospitals continue to treat about 40 injured victims. The victims were...

A gas leak is causing traffic delays on Boston Post Road in Milford, police said Tuesday.

A fireball erupted at the site of a fuel pipeline leak after it appeared to be ruptured by thieves.

French interior minister says 2 firefighters were killed and at least 30 injured in a blast at a bakery in Paris that was reportedly caused by a gas leak. Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said “at this stage we can say it seems from an accidental origin, this would be a gas leak.” He said that Paris firefighters were already at...

The death toll from the collapse of a Russian apartment building has risen to 37 after more bodies were discovered by crews searching the huge pile of concrete rubble. State news agency Tass cited an emergencies ministry official on Thursday as saying four people who lived in the collapsed section of the building in Magnitogorsk remain unaccounted for. The collapse...

Search crews in Russia pulled more bodies Wednesday from a huge pile of rubble where part of an apartment building collapsed, bringing the known death toll to 33 and the number of missing residents down to eight as the grim recovery work continued for a third night. A 3-year-old girl was among the latest victims of the collapse in the...