Can’t confirm, but my neighbor is saying the fire trucks were called ahead for a gas leak.
Don’t think they were able to resolve it in time— hence the explosion.
Feel like some homes maybe could have been evacuated before then.
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Husband went outside—spoke to fire Chief.
Apparently explosion was a manhole cover blowing. Claims we are all about to lose power.
Firefighters have been out there because they thought there was a carbon monoxide issue.
(How those two things are related, I don’t know)
big explosion across the street from me. there were huge flames before I thought to take a pic. I think it was a circuit breaker (?) because my lights were going nuts right before the bang