The gas leak that wasn’t . . .

“There was no gas leak,” said Atmos spokesman, Jim Bartling. “There was no danger to anyone at anytime.”
Last week’s event in which it was first thought to have been a gas leak, somewhere in Adrian that shut down natural gas service to customers, turned out to not be a leak at all.
Atmos was doing routine maintenance on the line when a valve locked up in the regulating station. That stopped the flow of gas through the line, resulting in the shutting off of gas to Atmos customers.
When the problem with the frozen valve was fixed, Atmos called in thirty-two employees, some from western Kansas and eastern Missouri, to go house to house and relight the pilot lights on stoves, hot water tanks and furnaces for customers.