Explosion Kills Floor Finishers The goal was gleaming, refinished wood floors. Instead, the result was fire and death. A company hired several men to sand and refinish a stairway and wood floors on the third floor of a three-family home. The men were applying flammable lacquer floor sealer when it ignited. The explosion caused a fireball that shot through two stairways down to the first floor and engulfed the entire third floor. People in adjoining units grabbed phones and within minutes emergency medical services and firefighters arrived. One 35-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. Three other workers were rushed to hospital, […]
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