If you have a natural gas line running into your home, you need to know the location of your gas shut-off valves. A gas leak or a damaged gas line is an emergency situation that requires immediate ...

Some things in life are worth learning before it’s too late—like the locations of your water shutoff valve and your gas shutoff valve. “One of the first things I show homeowners during a plumbing ...

Due to age and corrosion, the main gas shut-off valve in up to 10% of California homes is frozen so tight that the average homeowner cannot move it to the closed position, according to a Public ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Everyone thinks they may have everything they need in case of an earthquake emergency, but there is one very important thing you may be overlooking. It's called an earthquake ...

State and congressional lawmakers moved Tuesday to impose new requirements for automatic or remote-controlled shutoff valves on pipelines after last week’s San Bruno natural gas conflagration raged ...

More than 100,000 homes a year would get automatic shutoff valves on the natural gas lines they’re connected to under a rule proposed recently by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Excess flow ...

Pacific Gas and Electric employees tried to stop the flow of natural gas into the pipeline but they couldn’t reach the manual valve. The gas wasn't shut off for 90 minutes. San Bruno Assemblyman Jerry ...