Around 11 p.m. last Thursday, as residents of Temescal dozed off for the night or prepared for the next day, a loud whooshing sound reverberated through the neighborhood. Neighbors immediately roused and texted each other or checked in on community forums to learn what had happened.
One person, who asked not to be named, told us they rushed outside in their robe. Near their home, the sound appeared to be coming from a pipe replacement project at Webster Street and 43rd Street, they said. Fearing a serious situation, they immediately dialed the Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
PG&E, in a statement to The Oaklandside, confirmed that a gas leak had occurred near that location. A spokesperson, Tamar Sarkissian, told us that a PG&E crew was on-site by 11:15 p.m. the night of April 9 and after working for about two hours, stopped the flow of gas as “safely and as quickly as possible” — by 1:32 a.m. Friday morning…