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No Injuries Reported In Pipeline Explosion in Marshall County

Photo by Lisa Summers An aerial photo taken by a drone shows the area around the Nixon Ridge pipeline after it was rocked by an explosion around 4:20 a.m. Thursday.

From Staff Reports

MOUNDSVILLE — Marshall County officials said a pipeline explosion on Nixon Ridge at about 4 a.m. today was contained by 6 a.m.

The explosion happened at the Columbia Gas TransCanada Midstream pipeline outside Moundsville, said Robert Jones, chief of Roberts Ridge Volunteer Fire Department, which is one of the many departments that responded.

“It brought me straight out of bed and highlighted my whole window,” said Jones.

Residents more than 50 miles away in Pennsylvania reported seeing a glow emitting from the pipeline fire. Both Nixon Ridge and Fish Creek Road were closed to traffic today.

Drilling company Tug Hill Operating and Williams Energy closed off their pipelines as precautionary measures. No employees were at the site at the time. No homes were in danger, the chief said.

Jones said the department planned to wait until all the gas is burned out.

“It is better to let it burn so all of the gases are burned up; it is the only thing we can do,” he said.

(Lisa Summers contributed to this story.)

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