Heartbreaking Aftermath as Explosion Destroys Neighbors Homes Tuesday, November 28, 2006 An elderly New Castle woman broke down in tears as she returned from Atlantic City to find her home on Franklin Avenue destroyed in Monday’s explosion on the city’s East Side. 85-year old Catherine Frengel lived in the two-story house next to the one at 833 Franklin where a gas leak ignited causing a powerful explosion. Titan Radio’s Danielle Adams has her story in a video report from the scene. Investigators say the gas leak was intentionally set. Police suspect the man living next to Frengel tried to commit suicide. Meanwhile Frengel says she’s doesn’t know what she’s going to do now that her home since 1970 is gone. “I don’t have riches. I just thought I was gonna live there for the rest of my life,” said Frengel. “I’m 85 years old, my husband’s 77. What can we do?” Frengel says the Red Cross has given her and her husband money to stay at a nearby motel. She wandered the scene of the explosion with her husband today hoping to locate an insurance agent. She tells Titan Radio News she went to Atlantic City as a last minute getaway after the Thanksgiving holiday. She wonders what might have happened if they would have stayed home. “It’s a miracle. We’re so lucky we weren’t home,” Frengel said. “I would have been in the kitchen and that’s the part of the house that burned.” New Castle’s fire chief says at least 20 homes suffered damage from the blast. Some of the closer homes were …