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Storm and Flood Assistance
The gas pipeline was ruptured by a contractor working at the front of a house being constructed.
The pipeline caught alight and is currently burning several metres from the front of a house being constructed.
Firefighters have wet down the front of the building and imposed a 200 metre exclusion zone as a precaution.
A small number of construction workers have been evacuated as part of the exclusion zone.