Several houses were evacuated Wednesday night on the north end of Roanoke Island due to an underground tank leaking propane gas nearby.
Fire crews were called to the 100 block of Canopy Lane at 7:52 p.m. following the report of the propane leak at a home that sits along the Roanoke Sound.
Radio traffic indicated that homes just to the south of where the leaking tank was located had been cleared and the power was shut off as a precaution.
After propane company personnel pumped out as much of the fuel as possible, they conducted a “burn off” of what was left in the tank around 9:50 p.m.
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