Alert over gas leak.A GAS leak The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. For other uses, see Leak (disambiguation). sparked an evacuation evacuation /evac·u·a·tion/ (e-vak?u-a´shun) 1. an emptying. 2. catharsis; emptying of the bowels. e·vac·u·a·tion n. yesterday. Residents from 15 homes in Willowburn Avenue, Alnwick, had to leave their homes by police, who cordoned off several streets in the area. A member of the public had reported the smell of gas at lunchtime. Engineers discovered a leak (programming) leak - With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. from a gas main on Willowburn Avenue. Work to find what caused it was underway last night. A spokeswoman for United Utilities said: "Our investigations are ongoing. Safety is our priority, we do not take shortcuts over gas leaks." People living near the leak said they had noticed a smell of gas yesterday. Claire Richardson, 29, whose St James Estate home is next to where police cordoned off Willowburn Avenue, did not want to stay in her house while the leak was still being tackled. She said: "I open windows every morning to air the room. It was very strong so I went and checked everything. I do not fancy hanging around if it goes bang." |
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