A suspected gas line rupture has forced up to 200 people to be evacuated from a major hospital and TAFE campus in North Sydney.
It’s understood that a contractor had been working on Westbound Street in St Leonards, and allegedly ruptured a gas line, causing a leak around 3.30pm Tuesday.
A spokesman for Fire and Rescue NSW told Newswire that no one had been injured and the gas company had quickly switched of the gas.
‘The area has now been declared safe by Fire Rescue and Rescue, with the site handed over to NSW Police,’ they said.
People in the nearby TAFE and the Royal North Shore Private Hospital were evacuated as a safety precaution.
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