The morning of August 26, 2021 was like most mornings in the town of Wheatley, Ontario.
Kids were getting ready for another day of summer, people headed off to work, and it was a fairly normal day.
Until it wasn’t.
The calm of that summer day in the Lake Erie town was shattered when an explosion rocked a section of the downtown. The cause was believed to be a gas leak from an abandoned well.
On this episode of the 519 Podcast, we present ‘Rising from the Rubble: The Wheatley Explosion’.