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- 🚒A fire in a top floor flat caused by a gas explosion has left residents homeless.
- 🚒The gas explosion took place earlier today at three-story block of flats, Appleford Court, in Pitsea.
- 🚒One man was taken to hospital for burns to his legs.
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