Emergency workers in one Missouri town were working feverishly on Friday to contain the flames of a massive gas pipeline explosion that occurred in the early morning hours.
Nobody was reported injured in the blast, which hit an area just outside Hughesville, about 1 a.m., NBC reported.
But the glow from the flames could be seen for miles. KOMU tweeted that a spokesman for the Panhandle Eastern Pipeline company said that the source of the blast was a “30 inch natural gas pipeline outside a compressor station that ruptured and exploded.”
Hughesville is home to a “few hundred,” said Capt. Donald Sattler, of the Sedalia Fire Department, in the NBC report.
• Cheryl K. Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.
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