Lab at URI Narragansett Bay campus evacuates due to gas leak

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People were forced to evacuate from a laboratory at the URI Naragansett Campus today around noon after a construction crew severed a gas line.

A back hoe caused a 4 inch hole in the gas line.

Fire crews were called in to shut off the gas to the building.

Business has resumed to normal.

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