Explosion Flattens Small Building in Minn.

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RAMSEY, Minn. (AP) - An explosion leveled a small building on a commercial strip Tuesday morning, and at least one person was pulled alive from the rubble. Dozens of firefighters searched for anyone else who might have been in the building. The cause of the blast was not immediately known. A small flame was visible in the wreckage. Byron Reid, who works for Earth First Computer Recycling a block away, said the blast shook his building in Ramsey, a suburb northwest of Minneapolis. Reid said he saw rescuers pull one man out of the rubble. ``It looked like he was burned pretty bad,'' he said. The building housed the offices of Premier Commercial Properties, said an employee of the nearby JR's Saloon and Food, who would not give her name. A call to the business's listed telephone number would not go through. Anita Johnson, a real estate agent who worked for Premier until March, said ``four or five people'' typically worked in the office during the year she was there. A spokeswoman at Hennepin County Medical Center said the downtown Minneapolis hospital expected to treat four or five victims of from the explosion.

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