Rapho Township employees called for help after arriving at work and smelling a gas leak Wednesday morning. Ten minutes later, the building exploded.
, spewed black smoke and sent earthquake-like shakes through homes miles away.
Lancaster County dispatch said a report of a propane leak at the shop came in at 5:49 a.m. The shop exploded about 10 minutes later, leaving flames and heavy smoke in its wake. he drives by the township building on Colebrook Road each morning on his way to work. He was passing by this morning has as the explosion happened.
LancasterOnline reported residents could feel the blast in Columbia, Millersville and Elizabethtown, and Palmyra, Lebanon County.
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