posted on August 12, 2008

Toronto Sun: Few residents allowed back to 'hot zone'

By: DON PEAT
Published: August 12, 2008
Source: Toronto Sun

They're mad as hell.

Downsview residents couldn't hold back the anger as they spent the third day since Sunday's propane explosion blocked off from their homes.

Most fled for their lives when the Sunrise Propane facility in their neighbourhood burst into flames around 4 a.m.

Some residents in the streets around the Murray St. propane facility, the "hot zone," still aren't being allowed to go home. Several desperate to see their homes continue to show up at the police barricades only to be turned away.

Fire officials are appealing for patience as they continue to clear asbestos out of the area.

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