" 13 injured after explosion near University of Minnesota campus Numerous media outlets in Minneapolis are reporting a massive building explosion and fire there this morning. By: Herald Staff Report, Grand Forks Herald Thirteen people were injured, six of them critically, in an explosion and fire at a Minneapolis apartment building early on Wednesday in frigid temperatures, officials said. The blast and blaze, which engulfed several apartments and a grocery store, started about 8 a.m., they said. Huge flames shot from windows and clouds of billowing smoke enveloped the building as firefighters battled the early New Year's Day blaze in below-freezing temperatures. Firefighters climbed an aerial ladder with hoses douse the fire, and the water quickly formed icicles and a shell of ice encased the building. Thirteen people were injured and rushed to local hospitals, Minneapolis Fire Chief John Fruetel told reporters at the scene. Six of those injured were in critical condition, he said. Residents of the building suffered burns and injuries due to falling or jumping out of windows, Robert Ball of Hennepin County Emergency Services told KARE, a local television station. The cause of the fire was under investigation, Fruetel said. "It will certainly take us some time to determine the cause and origin of the fire," he said. The three-story building is located in an ethnic community of predominantly Somali immigrants, near the campus of the University of Minnesota. The Pioneer Press newspapers website reports an estimated 50 firefighters and several rigs were on the scene at 514 Cedar Ave. as of 9:30 a.m. Smoke from the fire clouded the neighborhood and the stretch of Interstate 94 that runs perpendicular to the neighborhood. In an audio file of the police call that reported the fire, an officer could be heard saying that people were jumping out of second-floor windows and that injured residents were on the street, the Pioneer Press reports. Ball said there have been no reports of deaths, but Minneapolis Fire Chief John Fruetel said not everyone has been accounted for. Ball said it's still too dangerous for firefighters to sweep through the premises." http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/281337/ It would seem the bottom floor was a mosque as well.....anyone have opinions?
Hopefully so. Doesn't change the fact that Minnesota is the state that got caught having muslim foot baths in PUBLIC SCHOOLS, does it? Building(s) mainly occupied by Somalis; three men living in them still missing. Failed bomb making has to enter the thoughts of the logical/sentient, NON-PC hampered mind. I guess we'll see.
I just finished reading a topic about a mysterious fireworks explosion in New York (Explosion In New York City? )... And now I read this... I'm sorry people but I'm going to have to agree with Grokmaster on this one... This looks like a terrorist attack. Actually, weren't there also other explosions around the world today? Maybe it's a shock and awe event! Time to smack those terrorists down again, hard!
