Less than a week after federal officials recommended tightening fire safety guidelines related to gas-line purging in response to the fatal explosion at the ConAgra Food plant in Garner last June, another gas-purging incident has devastated a power plant in Middletown, Conn., killing at least five people.
Read the full New York Times article: 5 Dead, Dozens Hurt in Connecticut Power Plant Blast
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