About nine months after filing a wrongful death suit against Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, the family of Leonel Rondon has reached a settlement with the utility company said to be responsible for a series of gas explosions and fires north of Boston last September.
While dozens of people were injured and more than 130 buildings were damaged or destroyed in Lawrence, Andover and North Andover on Sept. 13, Rondon was the only fatality in the disaster. A chimney from a nearby house fell onto a parked car the 18 year old occupied.