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A fire at a 150-year-old refinery complex in Philadelphia was started in a vat of butane. The blaze turned the early morning sky a bright orange and yellow and awakened startled residents with ...
A "disgruntled former employee" opened fire inside a linen rental and laundry business near Philadelphia on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding three others, authorities said.
Several explosions were heard as a large fire broke out at a Philadelphia gas refinery on the morning of Friday, June 21.Multiple social media users reported hearing the explosions, coming from ...
On June 11, 2023, [1] a tanker truck carrying gasoline caught fire beneath the overpass that carries Interstate 95 (I-95) at the Pennsylvania Route 73 (PA 73, Cottman Avenue) interchange in the Tacony neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia.
Ruptured elbow pipe from Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, determined to be the root cause to the refinery's fire and explosions in June 2019. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board released its final report on the incident on October 11, 2022. [1] The report stated that a corroded elbow pipe, installed in 1973, ruptured and caused the initial leak.
A fire at the Chinon Nuclear Power Plant in France caused two nuclear reactors to shut down. [191] 12 February – Oceana Waterpark fire. A fire at the Oceana Waterpark at the Liseberg amusement park in Gothenburg, Sweden, killed one worker, injured 22 others, caused the evacuation of a nearby hotel and office facilities and destroyed the ...
The building was a three-story rowhouse that had been split into two apartments and operated by the Philadelphia Housing Authority.It had one fire extinguisher in a shared entryway on the first floor; however as neither the city's building codes nor PHA policy require additional measures for rental units that size, there were initially no other safety measures.
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