Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Natural Gas Explosion harms house not children inside - 8/4/2001 NS SATURDAY AUGUST 4, 2OQ1 S 38
SOUTH SUBURBAN BRIEFING
E AG A N was .used .to connect servlces�
t when the.residents moved 'in
recently. Eriergy0ne and the;
�raS blast hard 0' �11O__ I Eagari Fire Department ire a1ls .
ti �'
butl s inside not hurt investigating:
A house at 4320,
ox-,Rid Anyone who smells,.gas in
Road experienced substantial . their. rend Band tYenulcall their
damage in a.natural gas.ixplo- their hom
tion atj`about 2 30;:a rh Fkiday. gas company or 911
Neithe of the children °who Amy.Sherma '
were home alone,was inured, A p p L E V A L L EKY
according to? press release
from Eagan p
ohce.
A number of windows'were Big'advertlSlrg blo0ri
shattered. and some walls MISSing.f'On , VV Trip f
bulged outward.on the home,
which .4s:near Mackhawk sand
Diffley; {. roads Neigh oring' ; Police are looking for asx-
homes were Evacuated:
p` foot-wide red ball)W,-4,n, ssiag
pfcer found two ehaldren, from ari Apple Valley Kw1k Trip,
A 4 year old girl and a -year_Qld sincear1y Friday
'I'h ADple Valley police";have;n®
boy, asleep 1n a.bedroornr e but have put out:
children were taken ,to ;Chil suspects,.
dren's Hospital as a precaution metr-owide,alert after t40,-$15; 00;
y -measure and' released ,_balloon bearing.the Kwik Trip
shortly afterward: s Togo Was reported missing Fri
While emergency personnel ,. day morning
were.on the.scene, the parents , Someone.cut_the line to„the
arrived -The smell of natural balloon that w lot between m d-
gas caused nausea acid weak- in the parking eriipl'oyees.. j
ness,'whleh.proranpted the`par-. night and 4 a. ,
ents to tioave to look for mecica-, there told police cYta.ef Scott
tion about;one M aur before the Johnson, who took the ,cam m
explasror�."At the time they:left, the dispatch.center at 6 a m.Fri=
the pare�?ts were..not cer ain the day: ,
gas smell was causing
he,,ail- Johnson drew�patchers
mentis,according.to pohce, clam from gu
Aathoxties believe,thexplo- ,''hen he;ordered tle;`alert�but
sion vvas generated in the base- he has hopIori£somaewI h`ere ove
merit o the home.The 1Uln�reso- , ward hallo
to Office"of.pipeline-Safety is the metro area: "It liar to turn
investigating
the else ;and up sometime,"he saXd
whether:::the proper ,praceclure 7'amyrcy J. Osetid