BREAKING NEWS: Gas explosion rocks Florida shopping plaza, injuries reported

[mobeau69]

Source: WFTV9 ABC

PLANTATION, Fla. - Police and firefighters are investigating an explosion at a South Florida shopping plaza that injured multiple people.

The explosion happened Saturday morning at a shopping center west of Fort Lauderdale in Broward County.

The blast sent large pieces of debris about 100 yards across the street, officials said.

Read more: https://www.wftv.com/news/local/breaking-news-gas-explosion-rocks-florida-shopping-plaza-injuries-reported/964480168

[MaryMagdaline]

1. This is near my office in plantation. We heard the boom in my neighborhood, some 7 miles away

[BumRushDaShow]

2. CNN just did a breaking

Police respond to explosion at Florida shopping center

By Ray Sanchez and Elizabeth Joseph, CNN

Updated 12:46 PM ET, Sat July 6, 2019

(CNN) Police were responding Saturday to a major explosion at a strip shopping mall in the South Florida city of Plantation, authorities said.

News footage and social media video from the scene showed significant damage to the building.

There was no information on injuries.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/06/us/florida-plantation-explosion/index.html

[Leghorn21]

3. Pics from CNN -

Bad deal

[bluevoter4life]

4. I grew up in Sunrise

And know this area very well. Hope everyone is ok.

[MaryMagdaline]

5. Me, too! It's a very busy shopping plaza, lots of foot traffic

Lots of restaurants. Bad place for an explosion.

[bluevoter4life]

12. Most definitely

Just glad more people weren't around, on a holiday weekend d especially. Even the Peters-University area in general is always busy with vehicle traffic as well.

[MaryMagdaline]

14. Meant to say me, too to this post, not the prior one

I did not grow up in sunrise but I’m familiar with plantation, sunrise area. Have worked in plantation since 1993.

[Callmecrazy]

6. I was going through the Peters road light when the explosion happened...

Shook the ground and the car. I got the hell outta there. Yikes! I thought it was a plane crash. The mall is almost directly under the flight path for the airport. Debris blown all over University rd.

[Nay]

7. What time did the explosion occur?

[Callmecrazy]

9. 11:15? maybe...

[Nay]

11. Thanks. I was hoping for earlier, so that fewer people would be there.

[MaryMagdaline]

13. Wow! Heard university was closed

Plane crash would likely be anyone else’s guess. One neighbor wrote that she thought she had been rear-ended by a truck. She was on university.

[Brainfodder]

10. Infrastructure needs to be a top priority or random people are going to pay with their lives.

Grew up in a state full of bridges and some large tunnels, thinking about all the over/under passes you might see each week, recall statewide inspections with a ton of them in dire need of repair.

That was over 20 years ago and just 1 state.

We have to deal properly with cities in future flood wipe out spots, and move those whole communities to safety? Costly and inconvenience as excuses for inaction has to take a step off the accelerator and/or party bus and cave to pragmatism! Otherwise dooming a lot of random people in the future to horrific ends.

^same argument should be used on climate change, this inaction aint gonna hunt much longer as the pace accelerates?