Lancashire Fire said in a tweet units were called to a row of terraced houses on Mallowdale Avenue in the early hours of Sunday and that firefighters are searching a collapsed property.
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“The sound really shook me, I’m still quite shaken by it. I’ve never experienced that before."
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Ms Faulkner said that her own property and others in the immediate area had been damaged in the “devastating” explosion.
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“It was quite a blast, I live quite a way down there and part of my side door was blown in, my next door neighbour’s plates were smashed,” she said.
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