Some people were told to evacuate their homes in southeast Tarrant County when a gas pipeline caught fire after a vehicle crashed into it. More on the story:
A car crash led to a big natural gas fire overnight that forced some homes to be temporarily evacuated. FOX 4's Dan Godwin reports.Mansfield police say a speeding, wrong-way driver crashed into a gas pipeline overnight, sending flames high into the air. Police say they were alerted about a wrong-way driver, and a DPS trooper was headed that way. But the speeding driver veered 125 feet from the road and hit the pipeline.
The fiery explosion happened around 1 a.m. The injured driver suffering from burns was flown to Parkland Hospital. "So this is when it got scary. We went outside and started seeing the fire trucks," he recalled. "We went and asked the fireman what’s going on, and he was like, ‘You guys are going to have to get out of here. One mile or not, regardless.’""I went that way. My wife went this way knocking on as many doors as we could because you don’t know the severity of it.
The homeowners were allowed return to their houses around 3:30 a.m. After Atmos Energy shut off service through the line. No other injuries were reported. "Everybody came through, letting each other know where to go, letting each other know when it was time to come home," Salomon said. "So it was great a real neighborhood community feel tonight everybody coming together."
Mansfield firefighters said some grass fires broke out in the area where the pipe broke, but those fires were quickly extinguished.
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