Over 100 people were forced to leave the South Market area yesterday after a high-pressure gas pipe ruptured at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company. According to an employee, a private construction crew was trying to repair sewer lines when they severed the pipe with a backhoe around 12:30 p.m.
The over 100 people forced to leave, including neighborhood residents, dozens of business owners, and their customers seemed angry. When reporters interview Carlann Lauria, manager of Crocker's Lockers, she said, "Ask my customers. They were pretty irate." Crocker's Lockers is a self-storage company on Folsom near 10th Street. The employees kept busy. They went outside the police perimeter to collect payment checks from their customers. Another business, the Wa-Ha-Ka restaurant lost about $500 worth of business when their employees and patrons were forced to leave.
PG&E was expecting to turn the gas back on at 5:09 p.m.
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Good opening, except for one big fact error: The rupture did not occur "at PG&E;" it was at the intersection of Folsom and 10th streets. (-2)
Make your second sentence your second paragraph.
Use Lauria's quote to show that people were upset; don't tell me they "seemed upset."
Paragraph 2 is also too long. Break it up. Start a new graph for each quote and business.
7/10 - please revise and republish.
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