WORKERS fled for their lives just seconds before a gas blast engulfed an engineering workshop at Rockfield Street, Blackburn.
The fire started when two cylinders were knocked over, severing a supply pipe and releasing propane which spread over the floor. Seconds later the carpet was a sheet of flame. No-one was injured.
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