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Florida: authorities investigate gas explosion at shopping plaza Twenty hurt in gas explosion at Florida shopping plaza
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Police and firefighters were investigating an explosion at a Florida shopping plaza on Saturday that injured multiple people. Twenty people were injured when a vacant pizza restaurant exploded in a South Florida shopping plaza on Saturday, according to police.
The explosion happened on Saturday morning at a shopping center in Plantation, west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward county. The blast sent large pieces of debris about 100 yards across a street. The blast sent debris flying along a busy road in Plantation, west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward county. The restaurant was destroyed and nearby businesses were damaged.
Video and photos posted on social media showed a destroyed business with damaged buildings next to it. “We thought it was thunder at first and then we felt the building shake and things started falling,” said Alex Carver, who works at a deli across the street from the explosion. “I looked outside and it was almost like the world was ending. It was nuts, man. It was crazy.”
The Plantation fire and police departments said on Twitter that the street was closed to traffic. The fire department called it a gas explosion with “multiple patients”. The Plantation fire department called it a gas explosion. The blast scattered large pieces of concrete as far as 50 yards away and sent pieces of metal as far as 100 yards across the street. Carver said two of his co-workers’ cars were destroyed.
A police officer, Chavez Grant, said there were no known fatalities. The explosion demolished the building, leaving behind only part of its metal frame. It blew out the windows of a popular fitness club next door.
More details soon … Dozens of firefighters responded and could be seen picking through the rubble with dogs sniffing through the debris. There were no known fatalities immediately after the explosion, said police officer Chavez Grant.
Of the 20 injured, two were seriously hurt.
The Plantation fire and police departments said on Twitter that the street was closed to traffic.
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