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Akron Evacuates a Business, Closes Street and Trail Following Gas Line Rupture

Ideastream Public Media | By M.L. Schultze,
M.L. Schultze
Published October 26, 2017 at 12:53 PM EDT
The Akron Fire Department evacuated Malco Products after construction crews hit a gas line out front.
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The Akron Fire Department evacuated Malco Products after construction crews hit a gas line out front.
The Akron Fire Department evacuated Malco Products after construction crews hit a gas line out front.
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The Akron Fire Department evacuated Malco Products after construction crews hit a gas line out front.

UPDATE: The gas leak was contolled at 12:20 and employees returned to Malco at about 12:30 p.m.

AND THE TOWPATH TRAIL ARE NOW OPEN. 

The Akron Fire Department has evacuated a business and closed sections of a street and 

the Towpath Trail  after a construction company hit a gas line in southwest Akron.The rupture happened in front of Malco Products at 393 W. Wilbeth Road at about 11:30 this morning. Wilbeth from Firestone Parkway and Manchester Road were closed, as was the trail from S. Main. Street to Kenmore Boulevard.

Dominion East Ohio crews are repairing the line.

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M.L. Schultze came to WKSU as news director in July 2007 after 25 years at The Repository in Canton, where she was managing editor for nearly a decade. She’s now the digital editor and an award-winning reporter and analyst who has appeared on NPR, Here and Now and the TakeAway, as well as being a regular panelist on Ideas, the WVIZ public television's reporter roundtable.