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| SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 7:00 PM
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LINCOLN FIREFIGHTERS stand ready at a gas leak on the comer of 78th Street and Barrington
Plaza Tuesday afternoon.
A high pressure gas leak at a
southeast Lincoln construction site
% Wednesday afternoon caused fire
department and gas company offi
cials to block traffic and evacuate
surrounding homes.
Workers digging for a water
main accidentally hit a mislabled
gas line with a backhoe at the cor
ner of 78th Street and Barrington
Plaza.
Natural gas hissed out of a plas
tic gas line for about 45 minutes
while workers from People’s Natu
ral Gas tightened a clamp around
the line.
Firefighters stood at the edge of
the four-foot-deep hole, ready to
douse any ignition of the gas.
Deputy Fire Chief Rick Furacek
said a wind from the north helped
keep the gas away from house's.
South of the leak are four houses
under construction, Old Cheney
Road and a cornfield.
Furacek ordered residents living
about 100 yards away to leave their
homes, he said. Lincoln police
blocked three nearby streets.
Tom Weber, an employee for
Adkins Plumbing, said he was dig
ging in line with blue flags that
marked a water main. The orange
flags marking the gas line were two
feet to the east.
Weber said sometimes children
playing around construction sites
pull the flags from the ground and
stick them in different places.
New machines, hours at East rec center
REC from, page 1
through Friday.
It now will open at 6:30 a.m. and
close at 10 p.m,
“We felt that this would be a con
venience for those students who have
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to go all the way over to the city recre
ation center before we would open,”
Pfingsten said.
Pfingsten said the extra CFA funds
made the improvements possible.
“It’s good that we did all this this
year," Pfingsten said. “With the mini
mum wage increase, we wouldn’t have
been able to request extra funding.”
The facility employs more than 500
students. Most of its budget for next
year will be eaten up by covering the
increased minimum wage.
So far, student feedback on the
changes were positive, Pfingsten said.
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