This will be front page Connecticut news tomorrow- Just came on the wire, today, Superbowl Sunday.
Casualties Expected From Connecticut Explosion  return '
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Published: February 7, 2010

A massive explosion at a power plant under construction in Middletown, Conn., was expected to result in multiple casualties, according to the authorities.
The police officials could not immediately confirm how many people may were killed or injured in the explosion at Kleen Energy Systems, an electricity generation facility on River Road. The blast was reported at 11:25 a.m. on Sunday.

“There are fatalities but we don’t have a confirmed number,” said a police official for the Middletown Police Department. The authorities said only that those who were injured were being taken to area hospitals. A Connecticut emergency official said there were "some fatalities," The Associated Press reported.

The officials said all of the officers and firefighters in Middletown, which is about a 30-minute drive southeast from Hartford, had been dispatched to the scene.

Local television news media reported that houses near the plant, about two miles east of downtown Middletown, were damaged after the explosion, which they said was marked by a ball of fire and plume of smoke. Police officials said they received dozens of calls from residents of Middletown and nearby towns who said that they heard a large explosion and felt earthquake-like tremors.