A maintenance worker, who was also seriously injured, is credited with getting several people to safety just before the blast, which also destroyed 11 mobile homes.
Wreaths were placed at the World War I Memorial Arch and monuments in Farmington's Meetinghouse Park as part of services to remember those who never made it home from service to their country.
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