10 years after explosion, a Danversport neighborhood moves on
DANVERS — Vickie Newton doesn’t remember hearing the massive blast that destroyed her home and flattened her surrounding Danversport neighborhood 10 years ago Tuesday, but the chaos that ensued is something she can’t forget.
Pregnant with her third child, Newton ran downstairs barefoot only to turn back because the floor was covered with broken glass from shattered windows and doors. One of her 22-month-old twins was asleep in a bedroom that overlooked an enormous fire consuming the neighboring street.
“I thought that whole street behind us was on fire,” Newton said Tuesday from her rebuilt home on Riverside Street. “I thought everybody was dead.”
But no one was dead, or even seriously injured in the blast that erupted at about 2:46 a.m. on Nov. 22, 2006 — the day before Thanksgiving. Then-Governor Mitt Romney declared it a “Thanksgiving miracle.”
The 10th anniversary of that miracle passed Tuesday with little fanfare in Danversport. A gathering was planned for Tuesday evening at New England Homes for the Deaf on Water Street, which was damaged in the explosion, forcing residents into temporary quarters for about two months.
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