People with existing respiratory and/or cardiovascular conditions, children and the elderly should limit their outdoor activities until further notice.
The electric grid will be fine unless there's some extreme event like a pipeline failure during a winter "bomb cyclone." Then, there could be problems.
The explosion happened after a man tried to light a stove in the home. The man, his girlfriend, and a child were all life-flighted to a burn center in Pittsburgh.
Reid R. Frazier covers energy for The Allegheny Front. His work has taken him as far away as Texas and Louisiana to report on the petrochemical industry and as close to home as Greene County, Pennsylvania to cover the shale gas boom. His award-winning work has also aired on NPR, Marketplace and other outlets. Reid is currently contributing to StateImpact Pennsylvania, a collaboration among The Allegheny Front, WESA, WITF and WHYY covering the Commonwealth's energy economy.
