Explosion rocks Dallas apartment building
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Firefighters were preparing to evacuate residents when the Oak Cliff apartment building exploded. Dallas Fire-Rescue is defending the response.
DFR said at about 12:47 p.m. Thursday, crews responded to a gas leak call at a complex in the 400 block of East 9th Street.
Two years after the deadly explosion of the Realty Building in Youngstown, Ohio, which killed Akil Drake and injured nine others, the community still remembers the tragedy and the heroic actions of the first responders.