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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Warminster Naval Officer Injured in Local Explosion

Pasquale Troisi was celebrating his return from a recent tour in Afghanistan when he was injured in an explosion at a welcome home party, according to reports.

Sources say one of the two people injured in a gas explosion at an Upper Moreland Township home was a Naval officer who had just returned home to Warminster following a tour of duty in Afghanistan.   6ABC.com reports that 31-year-old Pasquale Troisi, of Warminster, was critically injured when a chiminea fireplace exploded in the back yard of a Hatboro home Friday evening. They report Troisi was at the home celebrating his return to the area at a party in his honor at the time of the incident. He was medivaced to Temple University Hospital. Triosi's family members told 6ABC he would be in a medically induced coma for three weeks and in the hospital for at least three months.  Troisi, petty officer second class, had just returned to his …

Helen Smith

9:40 am on Tuesday, March 19, 2013

It is difficult to fathom that this young man died in such a senseless way. It is equally hard to understand that someone would do something as foolish as to add gasoline to anything meant to ignite. The flammability of gas and its vapors are explosively combustible and only a complete idiot would have thought of such a thing! Thank God others were not killed! My deepest condolences to this …   more ›

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