For the second time in four months, Los Gatos High School was evacuated on Monday due to a gas leak at an adjacent construction site.
A police cruiser parked at Jackson and Main Streets near the high school, blocking the thoroughfare shortly after the gas line burst shortly before 9:45am. Workers and school evacuees gathered on nearby street corners as the smell of natural gas wafted through the air and public safety officials admonished against smoking.
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Responders from Pacific Gas and Electric and Santa Clara County Fire Department— the latter in gas masks and full body suits with oxygen tanks—worked until 10:30am to cap the loudly hissing leak behind the Los Gatos Athletic Club construction site.
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Workers standing by said a Bobcat-style excavator ruptured the underground pipe while digging.
The previous gas leak and evacuation occurred May 10.