Route 79 is closed to traffic between Tennent Road and Route 520 after a construction crew doing road repairs struck a high pressure gas line last night near Church Lane.
Construction crews struck a gas line this morning while working at Jackson Town Hall, prompting an evacuation of the building and an earlier closure of Don Connor Boulevard and West Veterans Highway, according to Township Police. The roads have been reopened, but Town Hall remains closed.
A natural gas leak followed quickly by a fire in a supermarket in the same vicinity of West Long Branch prompted evacuations from several buildings late this morning.