2018 News Picture Story
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Jessica Rinaldi, Boston Globe
“Columbia Gas Disaster”
On September 13th Hundreds of fifirefifighters and other emergency workers responded to as many as 80 fifires and explosions across the Merrimack Valley, a wave of chaos that left one man dead and at least 25 others injured, destroyed dozens of properties,
and forced thousands of residents out of their homes. Federal investigators determined that Columbia Gas failed to relocate an underground pressure sensor from an abandoned pipe during construction work in Lawrence triggering a gush of gas into the local network that erupted into explosions and fifires that rocked the Merrimack Valley.
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