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Brian Moosang was about 12 hours too late for his thin crust Hawaiian pizza.

Moosang, of Barrie, Ont., was on his way to Ottawa Tuesday afternoon to visit his son and daughter-in-law and they’d asked him to pick up pizza at Law & Orders, a popular burger joint on Highway 7 in Innisville, just west of Carleton Place.

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But the only thing Moosang saw was shattered glass, tufts of pink insulation and splintered wreckage, all that was left after a powerful explosion levelled Law & Orders just after midnight.

“I drove past and couldn’t find it. I put it on the GPS and came back,” Moosang said. “Three hundred metres … I’m looking and looking … It’s gone! It’s just not there anymore!”

Investigators from the Ontario Fire Marshal and the Technical Standards and Safety Authority spend Tuesday combing through the remnants of Law & Orders to try to determine what caused the blast, which shook neighbours from their beds and hurled debris across the highway and high into the surrounding trees. There was no one in the restaurant at the time and no one was injured by the blast or fire, said Const. Greg Streng of the Lanark County OPP detachment.