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SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — Eleven firefighters and two other people
were injured in a house fire explosion in the Piedmont region of
North Carolina, officials said.
Salisbury Fire Chief Bob Parnell said firefighters did not have
life-threatening injuries but were getting treated for
contusions, concussions and smoke inhalation following the fire
Monday evening. Two other people were taken to the hospital, but
Parnell said he didn’t know their conditions and couldn’t
confirm whether they were in the house at the time of the fire.
The Salisbury Fire Department responded to the single-family
home around 5 p.m. and found it engulfed in flames.
Eleven of the 22 firefighters at the scene went inside the house
to search for occupants and “get water on that fire,” which
preceded the explosion, Panell said at a news conference.
“It was enough force that the outside walls blew out, the roof
came up and went back down," Parnell said.
An investigation of the fire and explosion is continuing.
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