In Middletown, people gathered on the 13th anniversary of the Kleen Energy Plant Explosion to remember the six workers who lost their lives. Dozens came.
Of middletown yesterday, witnesses described it as a sonic boom and five people were killed and many more injured and crews have not been able to search a section of the plan, it is too dangerous to enter. laura ingle joins us live, what is the latest there. reporter: investigators are continuing to interview those who did survive the massive blast that as you said, felt like an earthquake and sonic boom, for everybody from miles around and people had their windows rattled and a lot of people were not sure what happened, and we now know it was a devastating blast that took the lives of five workers at the kleen energy power plant. one of the biggest concerns has been finding people who were at the site and getting an accurate head count, because there were so many contractors involved in the construction of the site, that was off line, and nearly 95% complete, they just don t
All right. more now on that power plant explosion in connecticut. it happened this morning at the kleen energy power plant in middletown. there are conflicting reports on possible deaths. police originally said there were two fatalities, but now say that cannot be confirmed. but the mayor of middletown confirms that there are multiple casualties. nearly a dozen people have been sent to area hospitals. cnn s susan candiotti is at the scene. susan, what more do we know about the accident that took place and how many may be injured? reporter: well, in fact officials tell me that there are definitely casualties on the scene, but they just don t have any hard numbers yet. you already talked about a number of people having been injured as well. we do know that there are about 50 construction workers onsite at the time when they were purging a gas line at the plant.
The search for more possible victims goes on as we speak. fire officials tell us there were about 50 people inside the plant at the time of the blast. laura ingle joins us by phone from middletown with the latest. reporter: assessing the damage and trying to get a head count. that is what is going on inside the kleen energy power plant. we ve been told fire bie fire officials, they are trying to get together for emergency responders who are sifting through the debris left behind from this morning s explosion. it happened at approximately 11:18 a.m. it was under construction. it was off line and was being built to produce energy primarily using natural gas. the mayor says workers from the construction company were purging the gas lines, a procedure called a blow-down when this occurred.
Kids started to cry because they don t know, if the house was going to be on fire. a very scary thought. it was almost like an earthquake. we had phoned our parents and they heard and felt the explosion as well. julie: i m julie banderas. gregg: and i m gregg jarrett. we may get further details in about an hour. a news conference is tentatively scheduled. laura ingle joins us with the very latest? i m coming to you about half a mile from the kleen energy power plant, understandably officers are keeping us away from that scene while this operation is going on as you mentioned. we are expecting to have a news conference in the next hour while teams of officials are being gathered. people that we ve been talking to here say they felt the explosion more than they heard it. one woman said she thought it was torn off of her home