Gas line break forces Paine Field workers to flee
Published 9:00 pm Friday, August 10, 2001
EVERETT — A gas line rupture forced the evacuation Friday afternoon of about 30 people from the Museum of Flight Restoration Center and a Boeing employee retraining center at Paine Field, fire officials said.
A contractor who is building a new hangar accidentally ruptured the 4-inch line at about 2:42 p.m., Capt. Bill Rueter of the Paine Field Fire Department said. Workers from Puget Sound Energy safely closed the line.
House fire: A two-story house caught fire and partially burned Friday afternoon at 16532 60th Ave. W. The fire, reported at 3:12 p.m., did $85,000 damage, Lt. Glen Webster of the Lynnwood Fire Department said.
About a dozen firefighters from Lynnwood, Edmonds and Snohomish County Fire District 1 took 10 minutes to douse the blaze, he said.
No one was home at the time. The cause remains under investigation.
Ship homecoming: If you see a big gathering on the Naval Station Everett pier this morning, it’s because a guided-missile frigate is returning from five months in waters off South America and Mexico looking for drug smugglers.
The Rodney M. Davis is scheduled to return at 11 a.m. today.
The ship, its crew of 200 and commanding officer Cmdr. Tuck Hord left Everett last winter, and in May teamed up with the U.S. Coast Guard to help seize about 13 tons of cocaine found aboard a Belize-flagged ship. It was the largest single maritime seizure of its type in U.S. history.
A large group of family and friends is expected to greet the crew.
From Herald staff reports
