There are limited sources but most come from the
Public Library reviewing the Winston Salem Journal for the
time period. Several other items of note include the time period;
there was multiple pages of direction as to where "Fall Out Shelters"
were across the city and county and developing a home fall out shelter.
Furthermore, one of the news articles in the same paper included
comparing this explosion to one in Wisconsin where the FBI was
investigating a bombing related to the Vietnam War. (Today, we
would have referred to [the Wisconsin Armory explosion] as terrorism.)
Extensive investigation here concluded the problem was seepage of
methane that was created by decaying garbage in a nearby city landfill.
This event created significant changes in how municipal landfills were
managed to include liners and monitoring gas buildup across the nation.
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