RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service: A gas line exploded on Sunday at a power plant in Middletown, Connecticut and local media reported dozens of casualties. The Middletown Press said the explosion was at the Kleen Energy plant. Middletown is 23 miles (37 km) south of the city of Hartford. The newspaper said on website ambulances and a helicopter were on the scene. The explosion was felt in neighboring towns and black smoke was visible for miles (km) around. A plant official told a local NBC TV station the facility was a 620 megawatt gas-fired power plant
Witness To Middletown Explosion: 'There Are Bodies Everywhere
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