Residents and businesses are irate after at least 100 people were evacuated from the South of Market Area in San Francisco yesterday after a gas pipe ruptured and the gas was shut off for nearly five hours.
Residents, along with the business owners and their customers, were forced to evacuate within a four block area of the accident, and are furious about it. Police shut down the area near Folsom and 11th after a private company ruptured a two-inch gas pipe while attempting to repair the sewer lines, says a PG&E representative. The accident occurred a little before 12:30 p.m. and was not turned back on until 5:09 p.m.
Among the business owners forced to leave their stores were Carlann Lauria, manager of Crocker's Lockers, and Samantha Feldman, manager of Wa-Ha-Ka Restaurant. Lauria stated that the customers of the self storage unit on Folsom and 11th were very upset and her employees were forced to walk outside the police parameter and collect payment checks from their customers. Feldman said her restaurant, which is on the same corner where the gas pipe ruptured, lost $500 of business during the accident because employees and customers were forced to leave.
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The news isn't that people were upset ... it's that a ruptured gas line forced the evacuation of a four-block area for nearly five hours.
ReplyDeleteOr, if you wanted to start out with: "More than 100 people were evacuated from a four-block ..." -- that would also work.
Please revise the lead and rewrite the rest of the story accordingly. Make your paragraphs shorter -- no more than two sentences long. (Newspaper columns are narrow so long paragraphs look like too much work.)
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