GHENT, W.Va. (AP) - A memorial is being planned to honor four people who died in a 2007 propane tank explosion in southern West Virginia.
WVNS-TV reports organizers hope to have the memorial completed by next January's 10-year anniversary of the explosion at the Flat Top Little General gas station.
Hazel Burroughs is the widow of one of two firefighters who died in the explosion. Burroughs says $7,000 of the memorial's $20,000 goal has been raised.
Burroughs says included in the memorial's dimensions are a 30- to 40-foot slab of concrete, a flagpole and 3-foot pillars dedicated to each victim.
Propane escaped from a tank and filled the store, which blew up after an undetermined spark ignited the fuel.
A firefighter who was injured in the explosion died in 2010. Five others also were hurt.