August 7th, 1973

While doing repair work on this west London neighbourhood a backhoe operator accidentally destroyed a gas line regulator. The increased pressure turned furnaces and gas stoves in neighbouring homes into bombs. Ten houses exploded and burned while an additional 40 were damaged. Miraculously, there were no fatalities.

(Source: Notebook from Yesterday)

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