Office workers evacuated as demolition causes gas leak.
Demolition of the Chuck E. Cheese restaurant on Baltimore Pike in Springfield hit a snag when an accident resulted in a cracked gas line yesterday afternoon.
Mike O’Doherty of O’Doherty and Associates, an accounting firm with offices on the second floor of the attached building, said he and several of his employees were working when they felt the building shake.
“We could feel the rumble when part of the building fell down,” O’Doherty said. “When we went to the back of the office to look, somebody yelled up, ‘Get out of the building, there’s a gas leak.’”
The incident is still unfolding, but began at approximately 3:10 p.m. at the strip of stores and offices at Baltimore Pike and Andrew Road.
People at the scene later described that an air conditioning unit mounted to the side of the building had come crashing down and ruptured a portion of a gas line that was above ground level.
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