Witness To Middletown Explosion: 'There Are Bodies Everywhere'

By GottaLaff

Smoke rises from the horizon in Middletown, Connecticut, on Sunday.

There are too many tragedies these days. My heart goes out to everyone involved here:

Witnesses and emergency response authorities said as many as 100 people were injured and at least two were dead following a massive explosion, which homeowners more than 10 miles away mistook for an earth quake, blew up a power plant being built on the Connecticut River in the southern section of Middletown at about 11 a.m. Sunday.

Medical rescue personnel said four of the 100 were injured, four critically, and two were dead at the site of the Kleen Energy Systems plant on River Road.

"There are bodies everywhere," a witness said. Another witness said many victims may be buried in rubble.

My Twitter pal JFKFan told me he felt the "earthquake". Scary stuff.

Santostefano said the explosion was related in some fashion to natural gas, but he did not know how. A neighbor of the plant said the plant may have used natural gas in its power generating systems.

Other neighbors said as many as 100 employees may have been working there when the explosion took place. A witness said the explosion took place when workers switched on the plant's energy generating systems during a test.

There's more. What a sad, tragic story.