Gas Line Break!

So Zac was off work yesterday to work in our yard on the backhoe. After about 3 hours, he was finished. Our neighbor across the street asked Zac if he could move the dirt around his yard to help make it easier to build a rock retaining wall. So Zac agrees and HITS A GAS LINE! Gas starts going out everywhere! The builder never installed a shutoff to the gas, and only buried it 6 inches in the ground! Our gas line is 6 feet in the ground, not 6 inches! Our neighbor says he's going to call 9-1-1. They ask, "Should we call 9-1-1?" Zac goes, "This is definitely one of those times that you call 9-1-1." So we ended up having 2 firetrucks, 5 police cars, 4 city workers, 1 ambulance, and the gas company end up at our house. Meanwhile, Zac is going door to door trying to get every evacuated from our neighborhood. The gas still was going the entire time. The gas company ended up putting a temporary line in, and is suppose to fix it today. We called "Blue Stakes" on our property before Zac did anything, but our neighbor never called. We are not going to be charged anything, but the builder is going to be cited for not installing the gas line properly, and our neighbor may have to pay for the used gas since he never called blue stakes. Apparently the gas line wasn't even buried, the builder just poured 6 inches of dirt on top of it and called it good, since they live on the side of the mountain. ANYWAYS, it was a lot of drama, nobody got hurt, and Zac is going to stay away from renting backhoes for awhile. Everybody got really worked up about it though, since the house that blew up was only a city away, and had pretty much the same scenario.