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From: Al Michaels
Date: 10/29/2003
Time: 2:05:02 PM
Remote Name: 4.40.180.31
I was based at Le Loi compound (MACV Team 96 compound) when that explosion occurred. I was at work in another part of the city, but a few coworkers were at ground zero when it happened. Cuts and bruises for them, but OK. It was the hot water heater in the snack bar...defective pressure relief valve, they decided. It launched itself out the roof, and landed a few feet away from a row of officer hooches about a hundred feet away. The only fatality was a cute young Vietnamese girl (she worked at the snack bar) who must have been standing right next to the water heater when it blew. The snack bar was only a few feet from the PX, and one corner of the PX was damaged pretty heavily.