He urged people returning home to inspect all their appliances that use natural gas and to call authorities if something seems wrong. Hundreds of natural gas technicians were to descend on the towns in the coming days to restore gas service, state officials said. As pressure mounted for gas company officials to provide answers about what happened, Sens. A Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation natural gas pipeline burst in West Virginia in 2012 and NTSB investigators determined that external corrosion, which could have been discovered by the pipeline operator, was at fault. Columbia Gas Transmission was owned by NiSource until 2015, when the company was spun off into Columbia Pipeline Group.

Source: CNN September 15, 2018 23:08 UTC