The Loveland Reporter-Herald editorial: Do what’s necessary to prevent tragedy
Investigators last week announced the cause of an April 17 explosion in Firestone that killed two men and injured two other people.
Now Coloradans need to know what oil and gas producers and the state are going to do to keep such tragedy from happening again.
The answer to the question of what happened — that gas from a cut flow line attached to a nearby well entered the house and caused the explosion — raises many more questions and concerns.
The gas, a combination of methane and propane, had seeped into the ground and entered the basement of the home on Twilight Drive through a French drain and a sump pit, and ignited.
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