STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. – One person has died after an underground explosion at an abandoned gas station in Stone Mountain.
DeKalb County police spokeswoman Officer Mekka Parish said the explosion happened just before 5 p.m. Friday. One man was pronounced dead at the scene and another was taken to a hospital with burns. It was not immediately clear how serious the second man’s injuries were.
Parish says the man who died was working underground to change a gas line to a diesel line when the explosion happened.
Two other men working at the site were not injured.
About half an hour after the explosion, authorities had rerouted traffic and were working to determine whether there were any more vapors in the air.