Community Volunteers Provide Natural Gas Leak-Detecting Devices to South Jackson Residents after Deadly Explosions
JACKSON, Miss. – In the weeks following two devastating home explosions in South Jackson, Chris Way, a 25-year-old volunteer with Mississippi MOVE, took it upon himself to supply and install natural gas leak-detecting devices in the community. Way, a South Jackson native, felt compelled to help after two homes exploded, causing the death of an 82-year-old woman and injuring her husband. In response, he went out with his mother to purchase and distribute the devices, …