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One Person Injured In Licking County Home Explosion

newarkadvocate.com

A Licking County man is hospitalized with severe burns sustained yesterday while saving his family from an explosion and subsequent house fire.  Fire officials are searching for the cause of the blast at the home on Dutch Cross Road in Bennington Township.  Firefighters say the unnamed man got his wife and teenage children out safely.  
 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.