Everybody is dusting themselves off, in Lawrence, Massachusetts,
after the scare over the weekend.

No explosion this time, and no damage that I heard of.
But it scared the heck out of the whole town.

If I understand correctly what I read,
the odor of gas was reported by several sources.
The culprit was a valve.
Here the reports differ somewhat.
One report says that when the pipeline was reconstructed in 2018,
there was this one valve that should have been disabled.
Another report says that the valve was painted the wrong color,
the color blue, which erroneously indicates a water valve and not a gas valve,
and somebody opened it thinking it was water …