Eastern near Flamingo reopens after gas line break
Repair crews for Southwest Gas work on a line break on South Eastern Avenue between East Rochelle Avenue and East Flamingo Road on Thursday, July 6, 2017. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph
Repair crews for Southwest Gas address a line break on South Eastern Avenue between East Rochelle Avenue and East Flamingo Road on Thursday, July 6, 2017. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph
Repair crews for Southwest Gas address a line break on South Eastern Avenue between East Rochelle Avenue and East Flamingo Road on Thursday, July 6, 2017. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph
Road closures are in place along South Eastern Avenue between East Rochelle Avenue and East Flamingo Road on Thursday, July 6, 2017, after a gas line was damaged early Thursday morning. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @vegasphotograph
Updated July 6, 2017 - 1:24 pm
A stretch of road was closed in southeast Las Vegas Thursday morning as repair crews worked to repair a line break, Southwest Gas spokesman Stephen Miller said.
About 2 a.m., a third-party contractor hit the line on South Eastern Avenue near East Flamingo Road, Miller said. All leaked gas was siphoned off by about 4:20 a.m., he said.
Eastern Avenue between Flamingo and East Rochelle Avenue reopened about 12:40 p.m. after being closed for several hours, Miller said
Six businesses were affected by the line break and required having gas shut off, Miller said.
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