An explosion in Social Circle sent two men to the hospital Sunday. A deputy with the Newton County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Paine Crossing in Social Circle around 4 a.m. Upon arrival, EMS was already at the scene tending to the wounded. Deputy Felicia Jefferson with the Newton County Sheriff’s Office said three men — one of them a 28-year-old who lived at the residence — had a fire burning in a barrel outside the home, which they had been sitting around for a period of time.