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Sheffield residents with no gas 'pretty well stuffed' and 'so cold they want to cry'

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Sheffield residents are "pretty well stuffed" and "so cold they want to cry" as thousands of residents have gone almost a week without heating in freezing winter conditions, a report has revealed. In the Stannington area of the city, 2,000 residents were impacted after a burst water pipe flooded into a gas main on Friday, 2 December.

Although the leak was stopped, water is still being cleared out and, as a result, many locals are still without gas.

Earlier this week, Sheffield City Council declared a major incident after the outage spread to Hillsborough and Malin Bridge areas.

Residents have had to find alternative sites to cook, shower and stay warm.

Last weekend, nearby Forge Valley School was open for people to go and shower and the site will remain open this weekend.

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Richard Sansom, East Midlands Network Director speaking to reporters in Sheffield (Image: PA Wire/PA Images)

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Water is still being punpmed out (Image: Megan Banner)

Stannington is still seeing extensive work while water is being pumped out while the streets are lined with frost as the temperature drops below freezing.

Speaking to YorkshireLive local resident Jean Tattersole, 73 said that "we are pretty well stuffed" and added that the basic conditions were like "going back to 1949" when she lived in a prefab as a child.

She said: “It was 7.40am on Saturday morning when I got a call off somebody telling me not to but my heating on - they thought there had been an explosion somewhere. We are pretty well stuffed; we are in deep large room houses and it’s cold.

"They were giving out heaters but then the grid reached capacity. There is a couple near me who are in their 90s and they wouldn’t let us have any more heaters because the grid reached capacity and went, so there was no gas and no electric on some streets.

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Work is ongoing to repair the leak (Image: Megan Banner)

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Local resident Terry Howell hasn't hasn't had gas for a week (Image: Megan Banner)

"We’ve had two hot water bottles on at night, a heater and we’ve layered up clothes. I’m 73, we’re really old down this street - that’s the problem.

"They have handed things out as best they could but the community have helped each other - I’m just taking a pie up to somebody now. You have to come together, it’s pretty damn cold.

“They are helping, it was just a very very slow start, I don’t think they anticipated how big this was going to be and what a big problem it was. A kettle goes nowhere and you can’t cook anything - my husband went and fetched a load of pies from over the valley for everyone.

“It’s like going back in time 60 or 70 years, I was born in a prefab and it’s like going back to 1949.”

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I have just raised the major incident in Stannington in Parliament, and called on the Government to provide urgent support & resources to @SheffCouncil

As temperatures drop below zero hundreds are still without gas. My constituents need a coordinated response from Government now pic.twitter.com/SmbPnkyqFl

— Olivia Blake MP (@_OliviaBlake) December 7, 2022

Another resident called Amy, a mum-of-two, told YorkshireLive that she had been able to get her gas back on Monday but it had been very stressful for her and the children.

She said: "It's affected me really badly.

"It was so freezing, me and my two kids had the electric heater we were allowed on in one room and stayed in there all day.

"I've never seen anything on this scale. It's ridiculous. It was so cold I wanted to cry - the kids were under blankets fully clothed all day, I was wearing two pairs of pyjamas and a dressing gown.

"We pulled spare mattresses into my bedroom and we all slept in there to keep as warm as possible while it was off."