Official: Gas company worker caused Mass. blast
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   Inspectors stand in debris, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, at the site of a gas explosion that leveled a strip club in Springfield, Mass., on Friday evening. Investigators were trying to figure out what caused the blast where the multistory brick building housing Scores Gentleman's Club once stood. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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   People walk in a damaged area about a block away from the site of a Friday-evening gas explosion that leveled a strip club in Springfield, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the blast where the multistory brick building housing Scores Gentleman's Club once stood. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Enlarge Photo

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   Items from the Score's Gentleman's Club are seen in the rubble on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, the morning after Friday night's explosion in Springfield, Mass. Dozens of building inspectors began assessing homes and businesses in Springfield on Saturday, a day after a natural gas explosion leveled the Scores Gentleman's Club located next to a day care and heavily damaged a dozen other structures. (AP Photo/The Republican, Dave Roback)Enlarge Photo

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — The state fire marshal say a gas company worker responding to reports of a gas leak in western Massachusetts punctured a pipe that led to a massive explosion that injured 18 people.

Authorities on Sunday did not name the worker who caused the natural gas blast in Springfield, one of New England's largest cities. Friday's explosion there flattened a strip club, heavily damaged a day care center and scattered debris over several blocks.

Some officials called it a miracle that no one was killed.

Most of the injured were part of a group of gas workers, firefighters and police officers who ducked for cover behind a utility truck just before the blast. Part of the neighborhood already had been evacuated because of reports of a gas leak and odor.



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