that reminds me of the time the construction crew my brother was working with opened a buried gas line, a small one used to supply a group of house. The firefig

that reminds me of the time the construction crew my brother was working with opened a buried gas line, a small one used to supply a group of house. The firefighters and the police were quickly on the scene, but they could only secure the area (creating a nice trafic jam), because apparently firefighters in Paris (or France) aren't authorized to close gas leaks and have to wait for a worker from the gas utility to do it, I guess because there's been accidents when firefighters tried to do it themselves? And so the worker from the gas utility worker arrived 15 min after the firefighters, while the gas continued to spew from the ruptured pipe, and closed the pipe using pliers.