Five-alarm Queens blast leaves 1 dead, officers hospitalized
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An early-morning five-alarm explosion and fire at a South Richmond Hill home in Queens left one person dead and several NYPD officers hospitalized; investigators say a man with bags of cannisters and a reported gas smell preceded the blast, and about 300 responders evacuated 16 residents displaced.
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