Faversham: Residents evacuated as gas pipe fire burns in Poplar View, Boughton-under-Blean
15:28, 18 May 2018
updated: 13:44, 21 May 2018
A householder has spoken after residents were evacuated when a ruptured gas pipe sparked a fire.
A 30-metre exclusion zone was put in place in Poplar View shortly after 2pm as firefighters dealt with the blaze in Boughton-under-Blean, near Faversham.
Chris Ennis, 50, said he hit a gas pipe while replacing some fencing and a fire broke out.
He thought the blaze raged for nearly three hours while workers dug a hole to turn the gas supply off at the mains.
Around 15 to 16 people are thought to have been evacuated.
Mr Ennis said: “It’s not what I was expecting to do today, I was expecting to put a fence up.
“It wasn’t what I was planning, that’s for sure.”
National Grid engineers and firefighters have been at the scene, but from 4pm the incident was reduced to one fire engine.
