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CON ED SLAMMED OVER KILLER QNS. GAS BLAST

Con Edison workers did not evacuate the Queens block where a mother of three was killed by a gas-leak explosion despite reading sky-high levels of gas under the street, officials said yesterday.

“There was no protocol,” said Con Ed spokesman Michael Clendenin, adding that dangerous gas levels weren’t detected in the home of the person who first called the utility Friday. “Which house would you evacuate first?”

The explanation outraged one community leader.

“Time and again, Con Ed fails the city, then they go to their playbook of denying liability, coming up with excuses, and paying out million-dollar verdicts,” said Queens Councilman Eric Gioia.

Yesterday, utility crews discovered a two-inch hole in the gas main just outside the Floral Park home of Ghanwatti Boodram, who died in the explosion.

“My wife was the backbone of our family,” said her distraught husband, Dindail. “She was a wonderful mother to my children. She’ll be deeply missed.”

Workers also found burned electrical cables nearby, but hadn’t found the cause of the explosion.

Clendenin said the hole in the pipe was likely the cause of the gas smell that a neighbor called to report at 3:34 p.m.

A Con Ed worker responded about 40 minutes later and found low gas levels. But when they starting testing a manhole nearby, they found that the air was more than 80 percent gas — an extremely volatile mixture.

The worker called in an emergency at 4:15 p.m. and continued to take readings, but no one was evacuated.

Additional crews pulled up 35 minutes later, just as Boodram’s house burst into flames.

stefanie.cohen@nypost.com