ACT Fire & Rescue is responding to reports of a ruptured gas pipeline on Hilda Kincaid Crescent in West McGregor.
Update to follow.
10:22am Friday 19 October 2012
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The gas pipeline was ruptured by a contractor working at the front of a house being constructed.
The pipeline caught alight and is currently burning several metres from the front of a house being constructed.
Firefighters have wet down the front of the building and imposed a 200 metre exclusion zone as a precaution.
A small number of construction workers have been evacuated as part of the exclusion zone.
10:37am Friday 19 Oct 2012
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Gas contractors have turned off supply to the pipeline and the fire extinguished.
No injuries have been reported.
The exclusion zone has been lifted.
ACT Fire & Rescue will shortly hand over the scene to ACT Workcover.
10:59am Friday 19 October 2012
[Courtesy ESA]
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