Two longtime residents of the Carriage Run community near New Castle say they are lucky to be alive after a propane tank exploded and set their home on fire Saturday.
Firefighters were able to contain the flames before anybody was hurt or any other homes were damaged.
Mary and Robert Gadsden of the first block of Skyline Drive were preparing to grill in their backyard when Robert Gadsden saw flames spurting from the propane tank.
He quickly tried to close the tank's gas flow to the grill, but the flames made it impossible to get near the tank. The flames quickly grew and started to climb up the back of their home, he said.
"Then all of a sudden, it just banged," Mary Gadsden said of the tank exploding. "There were so much flames coming out of it. I knew it was going to blow."
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July 12 2011 just after this fire my tank also caught fire. Just picked up the tank from the grocery store, grill is a 3 year old Weber, tank was leaking from the connection and it caught fire. seems odd same thing happened 10 days apart..I too tried to turn off tank but couldn't because of the fire,,,
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