Firefighters settle lawsuit linked to deadly 2019 Farmington explosion


Claims filed last year in a civil lawsuit against two companies in connection with the deadly building explosion in Farmington in September 2019 have been resolved.

In October 2020, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Diana Bell, personal representative of the estate of Captain Michael Bell; his brother, Fire Chief Terry Bell; Deputy Chef Clyde Ross; Captain Timothy Hardy; Captain Scott Baxter; his father Theodore Baxter; and Joseph Hastings, the Lewiston Sun Journal reported. Bell, 68, a 30-year veteran with the division, was killed in the blast and the others were seriously or critically injured.

The lawsuit alleged negligence by CN Brown Co. of South Paris and Techno Metal Post Maine of Manchester. The nonprofit LEAP Inc., which cares for adults with developmental disabilities, was named as the third-party defendant after the lawsuit was filed, the newspaper reported.

The lawsuit was settled through an agreement between all parties and the case will not be brought back to court.

A separate lawsuit from Larry Lord of Jay - the maintenance manager at LEAP who was burned to over 85 percent of his body in the explosion - and his wife Sandra was settled in May, her attorney Steve Silin of Berman & Simmons of Lewiston told the Sun Journal .

Both lawsuits alleged that CN Brown and Maine Techno Metal Post acted "directly and vicariously" through their employees, according to Lewiston newspaper.

On September 13, 2019, Lord came to work on Farmington Falls Road and found there was no hot water in the building and the propane tank was empty. Lord called CN Brown, who had installed the propane tank and gas line this spring, to report the empty tank and, according to his lawsuit, the company sent a technician to refill the 400-gallon tank.

This technician did not perform a pressure leak test as required by law and did not find that the gas line from the tank to the building had been cut three days earlier when Techno Metal Post installed bollards to protect LEAP's air conditioning The complaint.

For the next three days, gas leaked from the line into the LEAP building and reached an "explosive level". The leak was only discovered when Lord arrived at work on the morning of September 16, 2019 and smelled of propane upon entering the building.

Lord immediately evacuated the building and called the Farmington Fire Department. When the firefighters arrived at the scene, Lord escorted them into the building when the gas caused a massive explosion that could be heard as far as Livermore, more than 30 miles southwest. Lord was the only LEAP employee who was injured.

An investigation into a Maine firefighter's office found that the gas leak was caused by the posts Techno Metal Post installed to protect LEAP's air conditioning systems. Multiple fines have been imposed on CN Brown, LEAP and Techno Metal Post of Maine.


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