ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a natural gas pipeline has exploded in a rural central Kansas cattle pasture, igniting a large plume of fire seen by motorists on nearby Interstate 70 in Ellsworth County.
No one was injured in Thursday’s explosion about 15 miles northeast of the city of Ellsworth.
Emergency manager Keith Haberer says pipeline owner Northern Natural Gas shut off gas to the pipeline to put out the flames. A grass fire ignited by the explosion also was brought under control.