WELLINGTON — Crews continue working to clean up an underground gasoline leak reported last night in Wellington.

The Fire Department got a call about an odor of gas about 10:45 last night and found a leak in an gasoline transmission line under the township maintenance garage at 105 Maple St, according to Chief Mike Wetherbee.

About 75 people were evacuated from Brookside Park Mobile Home Park.

Gasoline had pooled in the parking lot and gotten into a nearby waterway, the White Ditch, Wetherbee said.

Crews built dams in the ditch to contain the gasoline and had the spill contained about an hour and a half after it started, Wetherbee said.

“We’re very confident that we held it in check,” Wetherbeen said.

Tom Kelley, Lorain County Emergency Management Agency director, said it is estimated that 125,000 gallons of gasoline leaked.

The cleanup is expected to take a couple days. Most of the residents who were forced out of their homes are staying with relatives, and others are taking advantage of a Red Cross shelter that has opened up in the Wellington Village Hall.

Sunoco Logistics, the company that owns the pipeline, is handling the cleanup with the assistance of firefighters and under the watch of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Lorain County Emergency Management Agency and a Lorain County hazardous materials squad responded to the scene along with firefighters from Oberlin, Spencer, LaGrange and Elyria.

Wetherbee said no one was hurt due to the leak. He said the underground gasoline transmission line is used to transport gasoline between holding facilities, not to deliver it to gas stations.

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A mailman was attacked by two dogs at about 11 a.m. this morning in Lorain.

According to police Lt. Mark Carpentiere, an ambulance was called to the scene for assistance. The attack occurred on East 31st Street, between Seneca and Pearl avenues, according to LifeCare radio traffic.

The mailman’s condition was not immediately available.

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ELYRIA — An Elyria woman fired three shots at a neighbor she said was breaking into her home yesterday, and the man was arrested nearby within minutes.

Napp

Steven Napp, 31, is charged with burglary and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police were called to a home at 107 Floral Court about 8:30 a.m., according to a police report.

The resident of the home told them she’d fired on a man who was breaking into her house but did not hit him.

A witness told police he recognized Napp as the boyfriend of a woman who lives at 111 Floral Court, the report said. He said he heard Napp yelling “Oh my god!” and running south toward Lake Avenue.

He said Napp had no shirt or shoes on and was wearing blue jeans. He said he then saw Napp running east on Lake Avenue toward Furnace Street.

By the time officers arrived, they learned that U.S. Marshals had stopped Napp at Lake Avenue and Cascade Street.

Once Elyria police took custody of Napp, they found a used syringe in his pocket. He told them he’d used the syringe the day before for heroin, the report said.

Napp was taken to the Lorain County Jail.