Two men who were severely injured in a propane fire Wednesday took heroic actions to prevent a much larger catastrophe, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.
Two employees of Cenex, aged 57 and 66, were badly burned in a large fire at a propane facility around 2 p.m. on June 11, sheriff’s spokesperson Carly Cappetto told The News Tribune. The incident occurred in the 15800 block of 66th Avenue Northwest in the Gig Harbor area, according to a Facebook post by Cappetto.
She said there was an accidental leak of liquid propane from a 120-gallon liquid propane tank, and it caught fire from a still-unknown source in the backyard of the facility…