The man who was seriously injured has 43 percent of his body covered in burns. The City of Newark is still investigating the cause of an explosion at a housing complex.
The blast left six people injured and destroyed three apartments.
Everything 53-year-old Mario owned inside his apartment at the Stephen Crane Village in Newark— is now destroyed. His childhood best friend and neighbor telling me Mario is in an induced coma at Copperman Barnabus’s Burn Unit, recovering from nearly half of his body being burned after a sudden explosion in his apartment "It’s a miracle he is alive, beyond belief," said Mario’s friend Toby Marmorino, a Newark resident. "And then it’s a miracle that no one else is dead.
"All of a sudden, I hear this boom. And the whole entire ground shook like an earthquake… And then I see all the smoke from the building when it collapsed. People are screaming over the ground. People are all over the ground."All of a sudden, I hear this boom. And the whole entire ground shook like an earthquake," said one resident. "And then I see all the smoke from the building when it collapsed. People are screaming over the ground. People are all over the ground.
"We’re going to be holding a meeting pretty soon to talk about the work that’s been going on here," said Marmorino. "We don’t know if it’s up to code. People have been complaining of gas leaks. Nothing was done about it. It’s a shame it took this to happen."
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