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Cause of Marquette mobile home explosion identified

MARQUETTE, MI— Officials have figured out what caused a Marquette mobile home to explode last month.

The December 29th explosion at the Birch Grove Trailer Park destroyed the home, but the resident only suffered minor burns.

The Marquette Fire Department says the explosion was caused by a natural gas leak from an appliance in the mobile home.

An adjacent trailer caught fire after the blast, and several nearby mobile homes were damaged.

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Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.