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National Explosion Day in US?

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Explosions rock resort town on Lake Michigan
Two missing, others treated at nearby Green Bay hospital


Monday, July 10, 2006; Posted: 2:35 p.m. EDT (18:35 GMT)


A series of explosions damaged a cottage and two other buildings in the resort community of Ellison Bay, Wisconsin, early Monday, sending seven people to hospitals, authorities said. Two people were missing.

The blasts at about 2:30 a.m. ET struck a grocery store, a cottage and a maintenance building with a living quarters on the Door County peninsula, which juts into Lake Michigan, said Chief Chris Hecht of the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Department.

"It was the most unbelievable thing that I have felt in my entire life," said Tamara Little of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who was staying at a nearby resort cabin. "I almost ran into this big shard of glass that was sticking out of the ground."

Hecht did not give details on the two missing people, but Little said a man who had been staying in a cabin next to hers said his brother-in-law and sister could not be found.

Charles Most, chairman of the Door County Board and the Liberty Grove Town Board, said investigators believe a propane gas leak might have triggered the explosion, though they had not yet pinpointed the cause.

Seven people were taken to Door County Memorial Hospital in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, and four were transferred to a Green Bay, Wisconsin, hospital, Hecht said. Five others refused treatment or sought medical help on their own.

Ellison Bay is about 65 miles northeast of Green Bay. The damaged cottage was part of the Cedar Grove Resort, where Hecht said 49 people were staying.

Jonathan Bastian, a bartender at the Mink River Basin Supper Club in Ellison Bay, said he was finishing up for the night when he heard a succession of explosions. He ran outside with a portable phone and called 911.

"I told them I think half the ... town blew up," he said.

The Door County Sheriff's Department closed Highway 42, the main route up the peninsula, and Hecht said authorities were urging people to stay away from the area.



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