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Big Explosion in Portland OR
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Yazata Offline Oct 19, 2016 10:11 PM (This post was last modified: Oct 19, 2016 10:13 PM by Yazata.)
An explosion this morning in Portland's increasingly trendy and upscale 'alphabet district' completely leveled a 110 year old building and damaged several other adjoining buildings. Apparently the cause was a gas leak. Seven people were injured, including three firemen who had reported to a gas-leak call. Some reports say that gas line was ruptured during construction work in the area. It sounds like the building hosted a cafe.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index...ndi_3.html
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Magical Realist Offline Oct 20, 2016 07:58 PM
This was breaking local news all day here. Pretty amazing they got out in time.
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