Gas leak at Columbia Dairy Queen

Republic-Times- April 2, 2018

Columbia Fire Department personnel were joined by police and EMS in responding shortly before 12:20 p.m. Monday to a gas leak reported inside the Columbia Dairy Queen on South Main Street.

The fast food restaurant was evacuated briefly as a precaution.

Initial reports are that one person sustained minor burns in the incident.

Dairy Queen was reopened to customers by about 1 p.m.

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