A natural gas leak in Gwinnett County that led to evacuations was fixed Thursday night.
Firefighters arrived on Pleasant Hill Road at Buford Highway in Duluth around 4:40 p.m.
As a precaution, two nearby businesses — Kids R Kids day care center and Gwinnett Clinic — were evacuated, Gwinnett fire Capt. Tommy Rutledge said. No injuries were reported.
“It appears that a construction crew hit a 6-inch steel line while digging in the right-of-way with a backhoe,” Rutledge said in a news release.
An emergency crew from Atlanta Gas Light stopped the leak around 7:15 p.m.
Crews determined that the line that was cut was a service line to the day care center and not the main line, Rutledge said.
Pleasant Hill Road, which had been closed in both directions between Buford Highway and Palisade Park Drive, reopened by 8 p.m.
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