Gas leak reported before blast leveled restaurant
Thursday, February 21, 2013
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A day after a natural gas explosion leveled JJ's restaurant Tuesday, investigators raced to search the rubble and tried to understand how the blast happened despite suspicions that flammable fuel had been leaking, maybe for weeks, somewhere in the busy Country Club Plaza shopping area.
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