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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

Today is Monday, October 21st. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

An explosion rocks now in town neighborhood, causing multiple homes to go up in flames early Sunday morning.

Neighbors called 911 to report a home on the 300 block of West Green Street had exploded at about 3.20 a.m. when fire crews arrived, they found heavy flames shooting from the home around the corner on the 700 block of North Fountain Street.

The house and a neighboring home were engulfed by fire, and the flames were quickly spreading

to other neighboring homes on the block.

The flames eventually consumed 10 homes.

There was panic as people realized what was happening.

Yeah, it's a lot, right?

Yeah.

He showed footage from obviously some sort of helicopter flying over, and it looked as if the initial

explosion had thrown flaming debris

on top of the other homes.

To the other ones.

Police went door to door evacuating residents.

The fire continued to burn for several hours.

Flames could be seen shooting through the thick black smoke billowing above the homes

as firefighters work to contain the blaze.

The Red Cross says that they are providing emergency assistance for a dozen displaced families. About 44 people, eight of those families were affected

by the fire. And additional four families are temporarily displaced during demolition that is

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