FARMINGTON, Maine — When Stephen Gould heard about the explosion at the LEAP Inc. building on Monday, he said he was “sick to his stomach” — because he knew Larry Lord would be at the scene, doing his job.

“I figured if it involved his building, his responsibility, he would have been right there, overseeing that things were done the way they were supposed to be and that everyone was safe,” said Gould, the town manager of Livermore Falls.





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Lord, who lives in Jay, was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after the two-story building housing LEAP exploded after a propane leak around 8 a.m. Monday. Lord is the maintenance supervisor at LEAP and was credited by officials with saving the lives of LEAP employees when he alerted people to the smell of gas prior to the explosion and helped evacuate them.