Four days before the explosion residents started complaining of a strong gasoline-like smell coming from the sewers which became progressively more pungent over the course of days. Nearly people were 500 injured and 15.000 were left homeless.
(22 April 1992)
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Shorewood City Hall
3930 N. Murray Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
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