Gas leak contained at Lansing senior housing building

LANSING – Crews have fixed a broken line that caused natural gas to seep into a senior housing facility on West Holmes Road this afternoon, officials said.

A Lansing Board of Water & Light crew working behind the Somerset Apartments building on Holmes, just west of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, accidentally ruptured the gas main, Lansing Fire Capt. Maggie Murphy said.

Residents in one wing of the building were moved into a common area as a precaution, and no one was injured, Murphy said.

Fans were set up to disperse any gas remaining in the building before gas appliances were relit, she said.

Buses were made available in case residents needed to be evacuated.

The gas leak was reported shortly after 2 p.m. and was stopped about 4:20 p.m., a Consumers Energy spokesman said,

BWL was investigating the incident, a spokesman said.