Petco Store Collapse in New Jeresy

[Mark86]

A Petco store in Eatontown, New Jersey was being renovated and a contractor ended up drilling through a gas line. This caused a massive explosion that caused a three alarm fire and the entire building to collapse. Thankfully, nobody was killed. There were 4 workers and 1 contractor trapped, but they were rescued by firefighters. This story is actually making it on CNN news:

CNN Petco Explosion

I actually live around 20 minutes from there. I hang out a lot in that area. The more ironic part is the Toyota dealer that I purchased my truck at is just seconds from this store (maybe 1/10 mile behind it). I actually took it on a test drive right there. Well, the most important thing is that nobody lost their lives. It is scary when things like this hit so close to home.

 

[ksneubec]

I tried that link but it didn't seem to work . . . try this one, and it has good photos:

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=39918


I think this link may work for cnn:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/04/pet.store.ap/index.html

 

[Mark86]

I tried that link but it didn't seem to work . . . try this one, and it has good photos:

http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=39918


I think this link may work for cnn:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/04/pet.store.ap/index.html

Thanks a lot ksneubec. That other link you posted was far better than mine. There were many pictures I have not seen yet. I edited my post to fix the link. It should work now.

 

[ksneubec]

No problem, Mark. Crazy to be so close to something like that, huh? Glad to see not too many people are hurt. Hopefully everyone will be okay.

Karl