Propane tank leak blamed for explosion near Vernal

Author: Associated Press
POSTED: 09:30 AM MST Mar 04, 2013 
VERNAL, Utah -

Officials say they believe a leaking propane tank caused an explosion at a Uintah County industrial park that destroyed one building and damaged eleven more.
    
Lt. Steve Winward of the Utah Department of Public Safety says a truck had delivered two 250-gallon propane tanks to a building in the Ashley Valley Industrial Park on Friday night.
    
Winward tells The Salt Lake Tribune (http://bit.ly/XC10c5 ) the tank's leak valve may have been stuck open, and the escaped gas ignited a little after midnight.
    
The explosion prompted an evacuation of homes around the park in Jensen, near Vernal, but no injuries were reported.
    
The industrial park is run by Vernal-based Adler Hot Oil Service, which sells trucks for cleaning oil and gas processing equipment, and pumping fluids down well bores.
    

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