Alachua gas leak prompts evacuations

Mar 27, 2024 12:05 pm
Emergency workers respond to a gas leak
Emergency workers respond to a gas leak in Alachua Wednesday morning.
Photo courtesy Alachua Police Department

A gas leak inside Turkey Creek Golf and Country Club prompted the Alachua Police Department (APD) to evacuate several residences, according to an APD Facebook post. 

APD offficers and Alachua County Fire Rescue personnel were on site of the gas leak, possibly caused by a lightning strike, Wednesday morning.

According to the release, the immediate area and several residences were evacuated close to the leak, which was near the intersection of Turkey Creek Boulevard and NW 109th Place.

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As of 3 p.m., Gainesville Regional Utilities crews were still working to repair the gas leak.

“The Alachua Police Department and Alachua County Fire Rescue have left the area and traffic and activity are able to resume as normal, while GRU works to restore service,” the Turkey Creek community association management company wrote in an email to residents. “We have not been informed how many residents the current service outage impacts.”

Editor’s note: This story has been updated.

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    Glory Reitz is a Mainstreet Daily News reporter based in Gainesville. She earned a degree in communication with an emphasis in journalism and has served as editor-in-chief for two college newspapers. Glory is a sucker for any good story but is especially distractible by anything pertaining to Africa or classic British literature. A big fan of long, long walks, Glory has yet to actually get lost in the woods—but that doesn’t mean she’ll stop trying.

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