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Gas leak forces Woodbury gym evacuation

No injuries were reported after a gas line was inadvertently cut.

By Libor Jany

October 11, 2013 at 6:30AM
Life Time Fitness Inc. reported a strong jump in second quarter results and said it was getting back to opening new centers at the rate it did before the economic crisis in 2008 and 2009. File photo of a center in Lakeville, Minn.
Life Time Fitness Inc. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A natural gas leak Thursday morning forced authorities to evacuate Life Time Fitness in Woodbury for several hours as the morning rush wound down.

A Lifetime spokesman said the leak started about 10:15 a.m., when a worker accidentally severed a gas line while operating a backhoe near the health club at 675 Commons Dr.

No injuries were reported, and people were allowed back in the club at about 1:30 p.m., said Jason Thunstrom. He said the leak was reported just after the club's morning rush, prompting the evacuation.

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Libor Jany is the Minneapolis crime reporter for the Star Tribune. He joined the newspaper in 2013, after stints in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California and Mississippi. He spent his first year working out of the paper's Washington County bureau, focusing on transportation and education issues, before moving to the Dakota County team.

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