Service Restored To Hundreds Of Homes After Gas Break In Rogers Park

UPDATE: 11:06 a.m.

(CBS) -- All natural gas service is back on this morning- for 200 homes in the Rogers Park neighborhood affected by a gas main break.

There was no heat overnight to those homes near the 2500 block of West Fargo.

A crew from the water department accidentally hit a gas main Friday afternoon causing some sort of substance to shoot out of the pipes.

Several homes were evacuated. Warming buses were provided for people without gas service.

Peoples Gas worked through the night to repair the problem and get the neighborhood back online.

No injuries were reported.

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