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Possible Transformer Blasts Rock Oktoberfest in Huntington Beach, California

‘IT WAS CRAZY’

Initial reports said two civilians and two firefighters were injured.

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An Oktoberfest celebration in Huntington Beach, California, was evacuated Saturday night after fiery explosions that reportedly injured two civilians and two firefighters. NBC Los Angeles reported that a utility pole went up in flames and preliminary indications suggested the incident was caused by a transformer. “It was crazy, it was so intense,” Dawn Orlow-Townsend told CBS Los Angeles. “There was a second explosion and then a third. We just started running, we left our cellphones. We were freaking out. People were running all over. It was crazy.”

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