FLORESVILLE, Texas – Floresville city officials said Friday that it provided the state railroad commission’s report on a gas line explosion to residents nearly five months after the blast.
According to the report, C4 Unlimited — a contractor installing telecommunications conduit for Rise Broadband — installed fiber optic lines and also damaged a gas line on the morning of July 16.
Around 11:30 a.m., CenterPoint Energy responded to a report of a gas odor at 1705 10th Street. After more than two hours and a Floresville Fire Department evacuation order later, one home exploded and more than a dozen additional homes were damaged.
The explosion caused $517,016 in property damage, the report stated. Many of those homes have remained untouched since the day of the explosion because the residents' insurance companies had been waiting for the Railroad Commission of Texas report.
Due to the report’s release to impacted Floresville residents, they can now begin the insurance claims process. The City of Floresville can also help get displaced families back home.
After an hour-long executive session during a Thursday night city council meeting, council members decided that it would provide some financial relief to those residents.
“Any rebuilding and restructuring — any type of fees that are associated with permits and utilities — we will be waiving for those that have been impacted," Floresville City Councilwoman Beatrice Ximenez-Marroquin told KSAT.
The state railroad commission’s report is available on the City of Floresville website. As for the city itself, officials said they are still weighing whether it will take any legal action following the explosion.
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