Crime & Safety
PHOTO/VIDEO UPDATE: Gas Main Hit Near Delnor Cancer Center Construction
Delnor Drive is closed for about an hour and construction workers are evacuated from the site of the cancer center, but repairs are made quickly.
Tri-Com Dispatch reported a gas-main hit around 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013, near the new cancer center under construction on the Delnor Hospital campus, 300 Randall Road in Geneva.
Delnor Drive was being closed to through traffic for about an hour, construction crews were evacuated from the scene, and welding work was ceased immediately after the break was reported.
At 11:55 a.m., command confirmed that a 2-inch main was struck outside the construction site. Fire officials checked for levels inside the buidlings and called a Nicor crew to the scene.
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As of 12:30 p.m., there was a strong odor of natural gas near the work site. Construction personnel were sitting on the campus lawn or talking in the parking lot, still waiting to see if they would be able to return to work. Nicor crews were working on the repair of the gas line.
Delnor Drive continued to be closed to through traffic, blocked by police and emergency vehicles.
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No one from the main hospital building or surrounding medical office building was evacuated.
Delnor Drive was reopened around 1 p.m. and construction workers returned to the building site.
Patch will provide additional information when it is available from official sources.
