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Published: 1998-04-30 07:00:00
Updated: 1998-04-30 07:00:00

Posted: April 30, 1998

Greensboro Woman Dies in Fire Trying to Save Son

A woman died trying to get her son out of this Greensboro house after an explosion started a fire there. (WRAL-TV5 News)
A woman died trying to get her son out of this Greensboro house after an explosion started a fire there. (WRAL-TV5 News)
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GREENSBORO — Natural gas is suspected of causing a house explosion in Greensboro that killed a woman and sent her husband and son to the hospital. The woman died trying to push her 30-year-old son out the door.

Both her son and husband are hospitalized in critical condition with severe burns.

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