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The burning propane gas escaping from the valve connection on the rail car quickly heated the liquid propane inside, increasing the tank pressure. This in turn increased the leak and fire, further heating the tank car. [1] The Kingman Fire Department responded, and began setting up attack lines to cool the propane car.
On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States. One person, 18-year ...
Two plant personnel were killed. Rupture was at a junction of a 12-inch gas line to the 30-inch main line. December 11 – A restaurant owner opened a gas line valve in New York, New York, not knowing that part of the gas line was open and unconnected. The gas in the building exploded, killing fifteen people, and injuring more than 60 others.
This was no lazy Sunday for three people who barely escaped an explosion in the basement of their home in the Detroit area. While the cause of the blast is still under investigation, fire ...
The Lexington High School Minutemen and Madison H.S. Rams are longtime soccer rivals, but on Tuesday night, the two teams and their fans were united to support the family of the Richland County ...
A crew working in the basement area of an Ohio building intentionally cut a gas line not knowing it was pressurized before a deadly explosion this week, the National Transportation Safety Board ...
February 10 – A natural gas explosion and fire in Oak Grove, Missouri involved the failure of a customer owned service line at a threaded joint. Two persons were killed and their house was destroyed in the explosion. [210] March 25 – A leaking gas distribution line caused an explosion in Topeka, Kansas, killing one person. This was the ...
October 14 – A heavy equipment operator hit a 10-inch Gulf Coast Natural Gas Company line carrying gas at 420 psi near Wharton, Texas. The escaping gas exploded, then burned, but the operator was unhurt. [85] [86] November 6 – A natural gas explosion destroyed a house, in Catskill (town), New York, on November 6. The house had not had ...