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911 AUDIO|| Teens ignited well vapors, police say
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VERNON — Boys ages 15 and 16 were burned but don’t have life-threatening injuries after they accidentally ignited vapors in a gas well tank while smoking a cigarette.
The tank, on a well road off of Milligan East Road close to the Pennsylvania border, exploded at about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday.
The blast pushed out the top and bottom of the pop can-shaped tank, broke open holes in its top, blew off the ladder the boys were standing on and knocked them to the ground, police said.
Patrolman Eric Ruschak of the Hartford Township Police Department, whose department is handling the accident investigation, said he was not releasing the names of the boys, one of whom lives in Vernon Township and the other in Pennsylvania.
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