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Gas explosion levels two Indiana homes
LAFAYETTE, Indiana (CNN) -- Explosions leveled two houses, and a third caught fire Wednesday when construction workers ruptured a gas line in a residential area of north Lafayette, emergency officials said. A woman and her infant daughter were rescued from one of the exploded homes, said Tippecanoe County Emergency Services director Steve Wettschurack. "Both are fine, just real scared," Wettschurack said. "(Rescuers) were talking to them the entire time. The mother said, 'the baby's fine, she's in my arms.'" Mother and daughter were taken to the hospital, Wettschurack said. Emergency teams had not been able to get into the burning house or the second exploded house, and had not yet been able to turn off gas into the area, Wettschurack said. "They're pretty sure there's not anybody else in there," he said, but added that until workers are able to get into the destroyed buildings, they could not be certain. Officials have evacuated a five-block perimeter around where workers had been installing street lights and stop lights when they hit the gas line, Wettschurack said. "The fumes went into a home across the street and caught that house on fire," he said. "Shortly after that, two other houses on Salem street exploded. "They are just leveled. They are knee-high right now." Wettschurack also said the gas had gotten into the sewer lines beneath the street and buckled it. "It's mounded the street up about 2 feet in the middle of the roadway," he said. "But there's been no explosion, and we're not letting anybody in."
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