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Now is just me or is the news getting weirder?!
Third explosion in eight days injures three
Alex Sanz/Eyewitness News
Saturday´s blasts marked the third such incidents since New Year´s Eve last Friday. The explosions occurred underground on West Market Street where it meets Capitol Avenue, and sent three people to the hospital with minor injuries.
"We had what I consider a major explosion. It sounded literally like a sonic boom." said Indianapolis firefighter John Harding.
The force of the blast shattered store-front windows, ripped gashes in concrete floors and shook buildings for blocks.
Witness Jack Bayt recalled, "You can see the glass and the door frame laying on the street."
Tonight, the city´s third underground explosion in eight days is raising serious questions. Why has it happened again? The power company maintains its system is safe. But the city´s fire chief is demanding answers. And he wants them before more people are hurt.
"This many, close together, we need to take a look at that and assess what´s going on." state Indianapolis Fire Chief James Greeson, "I mean, if this had been a weekday, it could´ve been much worse."
The explosion destroyed a long-standing West Market Street bookstore. And made a mess of things at next-door businesses.
It came three days after a series of explosions blocks away forced I-P-L to cut power to hundreds.
No one is sure, but there is speculation heavy rains contributed to a short circuit in underground power lines.
And who can forget that New Year´s Eve blast on East Market Street that filled the Downtown skyline with columns of smoke? The culprit there, according to officials, was an underground transformer fire.
[link to www.wthr.com]
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