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Gas Company Fined For Explosions

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published December 13, 2012 at 12:25 PM EST

Dominion East Ohio Gas will pay a large fine for its role in last year's explosions and fires in Fairport Harbor.The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has fined the company 500-thousand dollars for failing to maintain the faulty natural gas pressure regulator blamed for the blasts. The resulting fires caused more than one-million dollars in damage to 160 homes
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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