UPDATE - Bellingham Herald has 19 images of the aftermath. Awful. I knew that area very well - lived near there and visited restaurants and shops there frequently.
Huge natural gas explosion in the wee hours of this morning.
Seattle station KING-5 has more:
9 firefighters hurt, 3 businesses destroyed in Seattle explosion
Nine firefighters were injured when an apparent natural gas explosion destroyed several buildings in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
A gas leak was first reported at 1:04 a.m. The explosion tore through the neighborhood 39 minutes later.
“The windows are blown out for half a block on all sides. So it was a huge explosion. It was extremely loud. It was out of control. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” said one neighbor.
“It felt like the earthquake in 2001,” said another neighbor. “I looked out the window and my neighborhood exploded.”
The firefighters went to Harborview Medical Center with minor injuries mostly involving cuts and abrasions. All nine were released by 8 a.m. The Seattle Fire Department said there were no reports of anyone missing.
I can not imagine what it would be like to get a call that my grocery store had suffered a similar fate. To impact one's livelihood in such sudden and violent means...
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