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Gas leak forces evacuation of 600 Google employees

Original post made on Feb 1, 2017

Hundreds of Google employees were evacuated Wednesday morning after a contractor accidentally pierced a gas line in the area, creating a strong smell of gas around two facilities on the Google campus.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, February 1, 2017, 1:54 PM

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Posted by Dolores Steinbaum
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Feb 1, 2017 at 5:43 pm

[Post removed due to disrespectful comment or off topic]


Posted by c v
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Feb 1, 2017 at 8:06 pm

@Dolores Steinbaum:

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Posted by Me
a resident of Willowgate
on Feb 1, 2017 at 10:27 pm

perhaps the contractor should have googled the location of gas lines


Posted by Digger dog
a resident of Another Mountain View Neighborhood
on Feb 2, 2017 at 6:35 am

I recall being evacuated when crews working on the "New" SGI building hit a gas line near Garcia ave way back when.


Posted by us_xunil
a resident of another community
on Feb 3, 2017 at 2:21 pm

us_xunil is a registered user.

Anyone, contractors or homeowners doing any work per major soil excavation
need to verify that there are no gas line pipes in the area.

The contractor is probably going to have a nice billing from PG&E


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