Crews stop gas leak on Dayton street

DAYTON — Some Dayton residents and students were evacuated from their homes Wednesday due to a gas leak.

The leak was first reported in the first block of Richmond Ave just after 12:30 p.m., according to Montgomery County Regional Dispatch. It has since been clamped off and stopped.

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Jeff Lykins, Director and Chief of the Dayton Fire Department, said a company had been boring under the sidewalk and struck a natural gas line.

Crews evacuated homes on the entire block and checked the basement of each house. Lykins said there was one house that had some gas concentration.

“There was a high presence of gas in the area. We cordoned off the area. We evacuated the school over my shoulder and houses along the street,” Lykins said.

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Richard Allen Preparatory K-3 Campus is a block away from where the gas leak was.

The Dayton Regional Hazardous Materials Response Team, CenterPoint Energy and AES Ohio were all called to the scene.

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