GREENVILLE, Mich. — Residents were asked to evacuate while authorities responded to “a very large gas leak” in southern Greenville Sunday evening.
The gas leak originated near the intersection at Clay and Union streets, according to Montcalm County dispatchers.
The evacuation advisory impacted everyone living within a three-block radius of the intersection, dispatchers say.
“They [were] doing work out in front of their house, believed they were running into a tree root, so they grabbed an axe," says Darren Jones, deputy director of the Greenville Fire Department. "What they thought was a tree root turned out to be a gas line.”
The gas line was restored before 10:30 p.m., dispatchers say.
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