“No one was hurt when a house exploded and erupted in flames in the bucolic village of Delanson Thursday night.
Fire officials spent hours battling the fire, which broke out just before 6 p.m. and sent flames shooting through the home’s two stories and attic windows. The loud noise, flashing lights and tall plumes of smoke drew gaping villagers to the scene, ironically situated right across from the fire station on Main Street.
“I thought it was a train derailment,” said Judy McLaughlan, who lives across the street near railroad tracks that cut through town. “It was so loud, it just sounded like something had blown off the tracks or something. And it shook everything. We’ve been through a couple earthquakes here, so I just thought it felt like an earthquake and a derailment all at once. It was huge.””
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Bump, Bethany. Albany Times Union 10 November 2016.
