Natural gas explosion destroys home, injures more than a dozen in New Jersey

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A natural gas explosion has leveled a house and injured 15 people, two critically, after a gas main break Tuesday in a neighborhood at the New Jersey shore.


Seven of the injured were gas company workers trying to locate the source of a leak that filled the neighborhood with a strong gas smell. Two of them were in critical condition at a hospital in Atlantic City.


Six firefighters and two emergency medical service technicians also were injured, sustaining concussion-like symptoms from the shock wave of the blast.


The cause of the 10:32 a.m. explosion has not been determined.


About 300 homes remain without gas service, and some are also without electricity, although authorities said the situation is under control.






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