Breaking News: Explosion At Middletown Power Plant!
Gas Power plant explosion. There are bodies everywhere, and more are buried in the rubble.
There were as many as 20 ambulances at the plant. Emergency rescue personnel were continuing to arrive by vehicle and helicopter.
The Hartford Courant, breaking news, Sat. Feb. 07, MIDDLETOWN, CONN - Witnesses and emergency response authorities said as many as 100 people were injured and an undetermined number may have died when a massive explosion, which homeowners felt more than 10 miles away and mistook for an earth quake, blew up a power plant being built on the Connecticut River in the southern section of Middletown at about 11 a.m. Sunday.
Medical rescue personnel said at least 100 were injured, four critically, and two were dead. “There are bodies everywhere,” a witness said. Another witness said many victims may be buried in rubble.
An hour after the explosion and what is believed to be the Kleen Energy Systems plant on River Road, emergency rescue personnel were continuing to arrive by vehicle and helicopter. Helicopters were airlifting victims to area hospitals.
There were as many as 20 ambulances at the plant.
Neighbors of the plant said as many as 100 employees may have been working there when the explosion took place. Confirmed information about damage and injuries from authorities was difficult to obtain.
A witness said the explosion took place during a test of the plant’s power generating systems.
A resident of East Hampton almost directly across the river from the plant said he heard a load booming explosion at about 11 a.m. Immediately afterward his house was hit with a concussion that caused him to believe someone had driven an automobile into his home. The concussion interrupted services at a nearby East Hampton church, causing parishioners to speculate that the area had just experienced an earthquake.
Other witnesses said they felt the concussion as far away as North Branford and Durham.
A neighbor of the plant said there were quantities of natural gas on the site.
A witness looking at the destruction from across the river in Portland said the main plant building seemed to have been substantially leveled.
State police fire and explosive investigators were rushing to the scene at around noon Sunday, as well as state police urban rescue crews, which would search rubble for victims.
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