middletown

Middletown Explosion Initial witness reports and authorities have said that as many as 100 people may have been injured and 2 killed when a massive explosion, which some even mistook for an earthquake, blew up a power plant being built on the Connecticut River. The Middletown explosion occured in the southern section of the town at about 11 AM on Sunday.

Witnesses and authorities said as many as 100 people may have been injured and two killed when a massive explosion, which homeowners more than 10 miles away mistook for an earthquake, 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 four of the 100 were injured, four critically, and two were dead at the site of the Kleen Energy Systems plant on River Road.

Observers moreover establishments expressed as several as 100 citizens may have been offended as well as two splayed at what time a enormous explosion, which homeowners extra than 10 miles left errors used for an earthquake, destroyed a control plant being constructed on the Connecticut River in the southern part of Middletown on almost 11 a.m. Sunday.

Emergency rescue authorities were briefing Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who opened the state’s emergency management center. There were at least 100 firefighters on the site at 1:30 p.m. and the fire caused by the explosion had been extinguished.

Medical save workers expressed four of the 100 were hurted, four seriously, as well as two were departed on the place of the Kleen Energy Systems place on River Road.

“There are bodies everywhere,” an observer expressed. One more observer remarked many wounded might be hidden in debris.

Some witnesses believe that the Middletown explosion took place when workers switched on the plant’s energy generating systems during a test. Emergency firefighters reached Middletown Conneticut at around 1:30 pm and tried to prevent further casualties.