Posted on 08/25/19
| News Source: WTOP
A gas explosion at a shopping center in Columbia, Maryland, caused the front of an office building to collapse on Sunday morning.
Howard County Fire and Rescue reported the explosion just before 8 a.m. in the 8800 block of Stanford Boulevard at the Lakeside Office Building and shopping center.
They received a call around 7:30 a.m. with reports of a gas leak, according to Howard County Fire and Rescue.
No injuries have been reported.
Stanford Boulevard is closed at McGaw Road as Howard County Fire and Rescue crews as well as BG&E work at the scene.
About 30 BG&E customers are impacted by the outage.
A widespread power outage in the Stanford Boulevard and McGaw Road area is affecting area businesses, according to Howard County Fire and Rescue.
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