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The artwork of a girl whose house was blown up this week is still floating around a London neighbourhood, even turning up on lawns a kilometre away.

Though she lost her home, she won’t lose her drawings, because friends and strangers alike are gathering up the pages – a little wrinkled, a little charred, but otherwise miraculously unharmed — and saving them for her.

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Welcome to Old East Village.

On Woodman Avenue and streets nearby, people are picking up the pieces after a shocking explosion ripped through the area Wednesday night, minutes after a car plowed into a home and severed a gas line.

Karen Fisher and her daughter Emma lost their home, the epicentre of the blast and the home into which a vehicle crashed about 10:30 p.m. The house was reduced to rubble.

It’s believed Emma’s drawings were blown away from 450 Woodman Ave. after the collision, but before the explosion about a half-hour later decimated the house.