3月7日上午，当阳城区一菜市场附近天然气管道突然泄漏，消防官兵迅速赶到现场，将险情排除。
7日上午11时16分，当阳消防中队接到报警称，当阳市南正街菜市场一天然气管道泄漏，情况危急。当阳消防中队迅速出动一辆水罐消防车及7名消防官兵赶往现场处置。到达现场后，官兵经过仔细勘查发现，事故是因现场正在施工的挖掘机司机操作不慎，误将埋在地下的一条天然气管道挖破，导致大量天然气快速外泄，管道破裂处还传出尖锐的气体泄漏声，四周空气中弥漫着刺鼻的天然气味。
救援人员对现场进行警戒，将无关人员快速疏散，并通知天然气公司停止该地区的天然气输送。消防官兵确定泄漏点后铺设水枪阵地，利用水枪对泄漏点气体进行稀释，防止发生爆炸事故。经过近10分钟的战斗，在确定天然气不再泄漏，空气中残留的天然气经稀释已没有危险性后，消防官兵将现场移交给相关抢修部门。
The morning of March 7th, near the Dangyang city a grocer natural gas pipeline leak suddenly, fire officers and soldiers rushed to the scene, exclude dangerous.
The 7 day at 11:16 in the morning, when the fire squadron received the alarm call, Dangyang city south market street is a natural gas pipeline leakage, critical condition. When the fire squadron quickly dispatched a tank fire engines and 7 firefighters rushed to the scene disposal. Officers arrived at the scene, after careful investigation found that the accident was due to the ongoing construction of the excavator driver careless operation, mistakenly cut buried in a gas pipeline underground, resulting in a large number of natural gas pipeline leakage quickly, the rupture was also the sharp gas leak, around the air filled with the pungent smell of natural gas.
Rescue workers on the scene to alert, unrelated personnel quickly evacuated, and notify the gas company to stop the region's natural gas transmission. Fire officers and soldiers to determine the leak after laying gun positions, dilution of the leakage gas by water gun, to prevent explosion accident. After nearly 10 minutes of fighting, in determining whether the natural gas is no longer leaking, the residual natural gas in the air has been no risk of dilution, the fire brigade will be handed over to the relevant departments of the emergency repair.