A natural gas explosion rocked an apartment complex for enlisted personnel at Harrison Village base, killing a 5-year old girl and injuring 17 residents and rescuers. Her family had planned to leave anyway, because the complex was without heat and hot water, but the explosion happened before they did so, she said. one people were still listed in critical condition. Fire authorities were called in about 5:45pm, about 5:45 p.m. before the blast, after people reported smelling gas. The gas was turned off at the housing unit where the leak was thought to be, but while that building was being evacuated, a unit several hundred feet away, where the gas had not been turned off, blew up. The blast destroyed 17 four -family unit and damaged another.
A natural gas explosion rocked an apartment complex for enlisted personnel at Harrison Village base, killing a 5-year old girl and injuring 17 residents and rescuers. one people were still listed in critical condition. Fire authorities were called in about 5:45pm, about 5:45 p.m. before the blast, after people reported smelling gas. The gas was turned off at the housing unit where the leak was thought to be, but while that building was being evacuated, a unit several hundred feet away, where the gas had not been turned off, blew up. The blast destroyed 17 four -family unit and damaged another.