A home located about 500 feet from an abandoned landfill explodes in a giant ball of flames. This is a mystery, as the home only uses electricity for cooking and heating. Most likely, this disaster was caused by ________

A) gasoline or other flammable substances that leached from the landfill into the home
B) corrosives that leached from the landfill into the home and degraded the home's electrical wires
C) groundwater contamination from the landfill into the home
D) methane that seeped from the landfill along horizontal cracks and into the home


D

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