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Firefighters evacuate homes, after gas line break
People were displaced, school was on lockdown around an hour
A ‘shelter in place’ order at Hintgen School in La Crosse has been lifted, after a gas main break this morning.
Nearly a dozen houses near 28th and Birch streets were evacuated by firefighters, after crews digging struck the two-inch gas line, around 8 a.m.
Xcel Energy shut off the gas shortly before 9 a.m. and is investigating how the break occurred.