Blast Near Calif. Marine Base

One person was killed and two people were injured in a propane gas explosion Friday night near a U.S. Marine Corps training base in northern California. The blast occurred around 9 p.m. Friday in the privatized military housing unit of Coleville, about 30 miles from the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center near Bridgeport, California. Thirty-eight families were evacuated after the explosion. A base spokesman said “two separate families” had been impacted by the blast, but he did not know its cause.