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Firefighters from the Boerne (TX) Fire Department responded on February 10, 2015, to a house explosion.
The house was leveled by a gas leak. The meter was leaking and ignited and blew up and caught the house beside it on fire.
According to local news outlets, a man was left with burns over more than 80 percent of his body from the explosion.
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