UPDATE as of 12:40 p.m.: In addition to the process of manually shutting off the gas to each individual home and business, SEMCO crews are also working to repair the damage caused by the accident at SEMCO’s city gate station.

Also, SEMCO employees from across Michigan are on their way to L’Anse to assist with service restoration to help the Upper Peninsula crew.

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UPDATE: L'Anse Outage Update 12/23/2016 10:30am

SEMCO crews have started the process of going to each home to manually shut off the gas to each home and business. This process will take several hours and we expect that it will be completed this afternoon.

Emergency Management officials have established a warming center at the Baraga High School, 210 Lyons St. Baraga, MI.

This process takes many hours to complete and SEMCO crews will be working diligently to restore service.

For updates please continue to visit www.semcoenergygas.com or call 1-800-624-2019.

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UPDATE: Baraga County Sheriff's Department is now saying natural gas customers in the L'Anse area could be without gas for up to 3 days.

This outage will effect approximately 1200 gas customers.

Warming centers are set up at the Baraga School, Ojibwa Community College and Big Bucks Bingo Hall.

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Due to the gas fire that was caused by a car striking the SEMCO Gate Station; a main line natural gas sub station, the area of L'Anse does not have access to natural gas services.

Director of Business Development of SEMCO, Tim Lubbers did say that in the future when SEMCO does go out to renew gas services, they will have to go to each home to turn the valve systems off, and back on to ensure that appliances are operating correctly.

This has not been done yet, there is no time estimate to when this process will start.

The L'Anse Water Treatment Plant advises Baraga residence who no longer have heat from this morning's accident to monitor their water to make sure that it does not freeze. When it comes to billing, the office will correct your bills.

The Emergency Management Coordinator of Baraga, Jeff Hubbard did confirm that the warming center is at the Baraga Area School.