After circling the house,
we flew a few miles to see a house that had
blown up
the week before.
Unfortunately,
the owner of the house was killed in the blast.
As Assistant Chief of the Bridger Canyon Volunteer Fire Department,
Denny had responded to the call before 2AM and was the person who found
the badly burned body of the owner.
As we flew around the site,
we could see glints of broken glass spread up the hill and down to the
driveway at the bottom of the picture.
Had the explosion occurred before the recent weeks of cold and wet
weather there would have been a major forest fire.
The suspected source of the blast was a gas leak.
Here
is the satellite view taken shortly before the explosion.
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