Body Found in Car That Set Off Blaze

A man’s body was discovered in the trunk of a charred car that crashed into a 30,000-gallon liquid propane tank and caused a fire that forced hundreds of people to flee their homes in Walworth. A witness told authorities she saw someone take the license plate off the vehicle and run just after the crash. The fire was extinguished almost 24 hours after it started, allowing investigators to get to the wreckage of the car wedged beneath one end of the tank. Sheriff Dean R. McKenzie said it still was not known how the car had crashed under the tank. The death is being treated as a homicide, police said. Residents were allowed to return home early Sunday as firefighters continued to pour streams of water on the tank while leaking propane continued to burn off.