huge explosion near my old job

for 10 years i worked at a group home for adults with mental illness in danvers, mass. When i heard the news this morning that there was a huge explosion in danvers i looked up the address and found that it was 1/4 mile from that home. Right around the corner.

I have not been able to reach any of my old friends who still work there, but there are no reports of death or serious injury. It's hard to imagine that there wouldn't be damage to the home though. i'll keep you posted here.

"A" is where the explosion was, "B" is where the group home is.

Here is the news story http://www.wbur.org/news/2006/62619_20061122.asp

UPDATE: One of my old pals at the home told me that the house will be uninhabitable for some time and all the employees have been temporarily assigned to other programs. He also said that 5 residents are missing. Not because they were blown up though... they just decided to take off, lol.

UPDATE: November 26th. Email from assistant program director...

"The house is condemned by FEMA and just by luck no one was seriously injured. The house has huge holes in the roof, the windows all blown in, including the frames, and furniture , blown around. A temp staff from Delta T was on duty and luckily was on the couch , head by the book shelf-says if was the other way around probably would not be alive. If someone was sitting at the desk the program director says they would have been killed!!! The emergency squads came by to evacuate and told everyone to get out and basically run for their lives, which they did. Apparently they thought there was a possibility of another explosion, with so many fumes in the air. Long story short, we had to find our clients and relocate them- and we have to find another site. "

Here's some amateur video taken that night. Beware of rough language of bystanders...