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Dominion shuts down Fairport Harbor ability afterwards January gas fires

Dominion East Ohio has fabricated several changes afterward the January fires and explosions in Fairport Harbor.

On the morning on Jan. 24, about 15 houses, mostly on High Street North, accomplished fires that were abhorrent on a accustomed gas body up.

The absolute apple was evacuated, as blaze departments from all over the breadth responded to reversing valve to help. Twenty humans were displaced and four homes were destroyed, but there were no above injuries reported.

On Friday, Dominion East Ohio appear a address of accomplish they accept taken aback then. While added than a thousand homes were inspected afterwards the fires, the aggregation has aback advised about 500 stations. According to the company, they accept chock-full application the Fairport Harbor ability and redesigned added units that are similar. Dominion begin that alone seven of the company’s 2,400 stations were like the one in Fairport Harbor.

"I anticipation somebody was snow blowing," Dana Kirk said in January about the babble advancing from her gas heater. "Next affair I apperceive there's three bottom bonfire cutting out."

"The assurance of our barter is our top priority," said Anne Bomar, Dominion East Ohio's chief carnality admiral and accepted manager, in a account absolution on Friday. "Our analysis has included assay of about 500 stations on our gas administration arrangement as able-bodied as testing of accessories by alfresco experts. Based on that work, we accept taken the adapted measures appropriate to boldness the affair and abstain a abeyant recurrence."

That advice is constant with basic letters from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio that appearance ice body up central two gas burden regulator butterfly valve prevented the sanitary diaphragm valve from alive including a aback up valve. That led to a body up of accustomed gas burden central some homes.

The aggregation aswell affairs to abide installing limited ecology accessories on about 300 airy acclimation stations.

Dominion East Ohio filed a address with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Activity and Hazardous Materials Assurance Administration that said "the attendance of activity fluids and gas temperature bead beyond the regulators acquired the regulators to malfunction."