Live updates: Nearly 90 displaced after explosion at assisted living center: Denver fire

DENVER (KDVR) — Nearly 90 people were displaced after an apparent explosion at an assisted living center Wednesday in southeast Denver that sent eight people to the hospital, according to the Denver Fire Department.

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The fire department reported the explosion Wednesday morning near East Harvard Avenue and South Quebec Street, where Eastern Star Masonic Retirement Campus is located, after initially saying on X that crews were responding to a structure fire that turned out to be a transformer on fire . The department had said the fire did not extend to any buildings but later reported the explosion inside the retirement community …

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