House explodes in Brentwood, baby boy killed, 14 injured

Originally published: August 14, 2012 12:40 PM
Updated: August 15, 2012 1:04 AM
By ALISON BARNWELL, KEVIN DEUTSCH, SCOTT EIDLER, CHAU LAM, KERY MURAKAMI, WILLIAM MURPHY, NICOLE FULLER AND ZACHARY R. DOWDY lidesk@newsday.com

Photo credit: Chris Ware ; Handout | Rah-Quan Palmer was killed in a Brentwood house explosion. (Aug. 14, 2012)

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An 18-month-old boy was killed and 14 people were injured Tuesday after an explosion that leveled a Brentwood home, reducing it to a pile of wooden planks and flinging debris through the neighborhood.

Brentwood fire inspector Robert Kuehn said Suffolk's arson squad is investigating whether the explosion was "gas-related."

Kuehn and a spokeswoman for National Grid said the house, 12 Prospect...

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