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U.S. NEWS Friday 2 March 2018

Gas service stops for thousands of Dallas homes due to leaks

Dallas-based Atmos, the lapsed its roof. The Na- week and NTSB investiga-
country's largest natural tional Transportation Safety tors are determining wheth-
gas distributor, will com- Board, which investigates er leaks were contributing
pensate residents who accidents occurring dur- factors.
choose to stay in hotels or ing the transport of natu- Over the ensuing days,
incur other expenses during ral gas and other products some were allowed to re-
the disruption. through pipeline systems, turn to their homes while
Thursday's announcement described it as "a natural- other blocks were evacuat-
by Atmos was the latest gas fueled explosion." A ed as crews worked to pin-
development to roil an young girl, Linda Rogers, point leaks. Dallas County
area of the city where hun- was killed and members of Judge Clay Jenkins, the
dreds have been evacu- her family injured. county's top administrator,
ated since an explosion Two other homes on the said Thursday that one line
Students from Stephen C. Foster Elementary are evacuated and Friday knocked a home same block were dam- alone had more than two-
loaded onto school buses as a precaution following a house off its foundation and col- aged by fire earlier that dozen leaks. q
explosion in Dallas. Authorities said early Thursday, March 1,
that Natural gas service will be shut down to thousands of Dal-
las homes following a series of leaks that has brought repeat-
ed evacuations in the wake of a house explosion that killed a
12-year-old girl.
(Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
By DAVID WARREN a 12-year-old girl.
Associated Press Gas service will be discon-
DALLAS (AP) — Natural tinued for up to three weeks
gas service was shut down to about 2,800 homes
Thursday to thousands of northwest of downtown as
Dallas homes following gas lines are replaced and
a series of leaks that has other work is done by more
brought repeated evacu- than 120 Atmos Energy
ations in the wake of a crews, authorities said at a
house explosion that killed news conference.

Lawmakers: Penalize railroads

that don't hit safety deadline

By MICHAEL R. SISAK Dec. 31 deadline to switch
The mother of a woman on the technology known
killed when a speeding as positive train control, or
Amtrak train hurtled from PTC.
the tracks in May 2015 told "More trains have derailed,
a Senate committee on other passengers have
Thursday that she is seeth- died, and scores of oth-
ing over the prospect of ers have been injured,"
more delays in installing Rachel's mother, Gilda Ja-
speed controls that could cobs, wrote in a letter read
have prevented that wreck into the record. "My anger
and dozens of others. is seething."
Technology executive Ra- The Government Account-
chel Jacobs was among ability Office study released
eight passengers killed Wednesday found that as
when the Washington-to- many as two-thirds of the
New York train crashed in nation's 29 commuter rail-
Philadelphia. Now, almost roads weren't on track to
three years later, a govern- meet the deadline and
ment study has found that that some of them were
most U.S. passenger rail- unlikely to make enough
roads are still woefully be- progress to merit a two-
hind and unlikely to meet a year extension.q