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Bronx blast shocks locals: ‘We thought it was a bomb’

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Published Dec. 31, 2013, 2:42 p.m. ET
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Paul Curtin, 47, attempts to tape up a front window facing the Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx after a box of fireworks detonated last night around 11 p.m. Dennis A. Clark
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Paul Curtin, 47, attempts to tape up a front window facing the Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx after a box of fireworks detonated last night around 11 p.m. Dennis A. Clark
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Pieces of wreckage from the explosion dispersed approximately 100 feet away from the location where the fireworks detonated in Pelham Bay Park. Dennis A. Clark
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Pieces of wreckage from the explosion dispersed approximately 100 feet away from the location where the fireworks detonated in Pelham Bay Park. Dennis A. Clark
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Pieces of wreckage from the explosion dispersed approximately 100 feet away from the location where the fireworks detonated in Pelham Bay Park. Dennis A. Clark
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Pieces of wreckage from the explosion dispersed approximately 100 feet away from the location where the fireworks detonated in Pelham Bay Park. Dennis A. Clark