Safety Measures Being Considered After Gas Leak Suspected in Fatal Explosion

The recent house explosion and fire in Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood has led city officials to propose a new gas safety measure which might involve requiring licensure to disconnect, replace or modify gas lines linked to home appliances.

Officials believe the incident happened after a stove was removed from a gas line that may not have been properly disconnected. It appears a tenant on the second floor removed the stove when moving out a week prior. The blast blew off the front door of the three-story building, killing one woman inside. She lived on the third floor, but her body was discovered in a stairwell close to the apartment where the explosion started. Three people walking by the building were hit by flying debris, and 10 firefighters suffered minor injuries.

The blast follows several others in recent years. Last year, eight people were killed in an East Harlem blast. In February 2015, a natural gas explosion leveled a home and injured 15 people, two critically in a neighborhood at the New Jersey shore. A month later, an explosion destroyed three New York City apartment buildings in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood, killing 2 and injuring 22 others.

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