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10 years after deadly gas explosion in Pa., empty lots haunt neighbors: ‘We are still traumatized’
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Posted Feb 13, 2021
File-This Feb. 9, 2011, file photo shows flames engulfing the block of North 13th Street in Allentown, Pa. after a gas explosion leveled several homes. (Monica Cabrera/The Morning Call via AP)AP
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) The emptiness across the block still unsettles Elsa Reyes after midnight, when she returns from work to her North 13th Street home in Allentown.
During the first five years Reyes lived on the east side of the 500 block, eight row homes stood across the street. Her son Joel would walk to school with a girl, Katherine Cruz, who lived at 542 N. 13th St.
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Allentown neighborhood remembers a natural gas explosion that leveled eight row homes in Allentown 10 years ago and prompted a troubling assessment of the city’s miles of aging underground gas pipelines.