Community sets up meal train for family of crash victims; gas service…

GEORGETOWN, Ill. (WCIA) — Gas will soon to be back on for all of Georgetown after a car crashed into a natural gas substation on Saturday morning. It happened at the intersection of Mill and North Seminary streets. Two people died in that crash.

Georgetown is a small community, and everyone I talked with said they’re still shocked to see something like this happen in their neighborhood and sad for the family. Ameren Illinois tells me over 1,400 customers were without gas after the crash, and they are still going door to door to get their services back on. Ameren said customers must be at home to do so, which is the only thing they say is holding them back.

I talked to several neighbors in the area but out of respect for the family they did not want to speak on camera. One neighbor who knows the family said it was a grandmother driving with her great-granddaughter in the car.

The community has set up a meal train to help the family as they grieve.