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Christian County Damage Assessment Team Assist with Canton Explosion Aftermath

The explosion in downtown Canton has left much of the city battered and damaged. The Christian County Damage Assessment Team assisted in the process of sorting out the damage caused by the blast. Christian County Emergency Manager Mike Crews said the Damage Assessment team had quite the job sorting out the full extent of the damage.

 

 

Crews said how the blast was an example of what can happen with aging infrastructure in many small towns across the state, and said his team is putting together exercises in order to be better prepared should anything like that happen in Taylorville.

 

 

More than 50 buildings were damaged in the blast. Investigators are still trying to figure out the cause of the explosion.

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