Article: Indianapolis Utilities Urge Customers to Prevent Fires with Gas Safety Checks.

Byline: James A. Gillaspy

Jan. 14--A woman burned when a natural gas explosion demolished a Speedway home says divine intervention let her family live to talk about it.

"It was a miracle," said 66-year-old Marjorie Graham, who crawled from the remains of her daughter and son-in-law's house in the 1100 block of Lynhurst Drive after the gas ignited Jan. 6. "I started praying and praying to the Holy Ghost, and God delivered me out of it."

But she can't explain the explosion.

"We don't know nothing about what caused it," said Graham, who escaped with Beulah Whyde, 25, and Charles Whyde, 49, who remains in Wishard Memorial Hospital. "We ...

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