Search and rescue crews braved icy weather late into the evening Sunday to look for possible survivors who might be buried in the wreckage at the site of a power plant where hours earlier an explosion rocked this central Connecticut college town, killing five people.
5 Dead, Dozens Hurt in Connecticut Power Plant Blast (February 8, 2010)
Their efforts were being frustrated by a sheer absence of information about how many people were working at the site, where construction crews were completing work on the power plant being built by Kleen Energy Systems. City and state officials said as many as 100 to 200 might have been on the job when the explosion occurred Sunday morning, but other officials put the count as low as 50. By nightfall they had counted five dead and more than two dozen with unspecified injuries.
Officials said they believed many workers may have fled the scene unharmed. But dealing with an unknown number of contractors and subcontractors on the project, officials on Sunday night, more than seven hours after the explosion, still had no list of names of people who were supposed to have been on the job and who might still be missing.
“It’s one thing to say we don’t know who was on the job in the morning after the incident,” the Middletown mayor, Sebastian N. Giuliano, said at his office Sunday evening. “But at this stage of the game to still be fuddling around with this is extremely frustrating.”
Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/nyregion/08victims.html
5 Dead, Dozens Hurt in Connecticut Power Plant Blast (February 8, 2010)
Their efforts were being frustrated by a sheer absence of information about how many people were working at the site, where construction crews were completing work on the power plant being built by Kleen Energy Systems. City and state officials said as many as 100 to 200 might have been on the job when the explosion occurred Sunday morning, but other officials put the count as low as 50. By nightfall they had counted five dead and more than two dozen with unspecified injuries.
Officials said they believed many workers may have fled the scene unharmed. But dealing with an unknown number of contractors and subcontractors on the project, officials on Sunday night, more than seven hours after the explosion, still had no list of names of people who were supposed to have been on the job and who might still be missing.
“It’s one thing to say we don’t know who was on the job in the morning after the incident,” the Middletown mayor, Sebastian N. Giuliano, said at his office Sunday evening. “But at this stage of the game to still be fuddling around with this is extremely frustrating.”
Source : http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/nyregion/08victims.html
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