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Fuel flowed down the creek, and later ignited, damaging one home and destroying six bridges. Several people fell sick from the fumes. [69] [70] December 14 – A leaking and burning gas line under a street led to several explosions at a hotel in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Seven people were killed and 23 others injured. [71]
April 17, 2017 – A severed flow line, from a gas well, leads to a gas explosion in a home, killing 2 people, in Firestone, Colorado. [32] [33] May 8, 2017 – Fire broke out at a tank for a fracking well near Greeley. [34] May 25, 2017 – An oil tank explosion and fire in northern Colorado killed a worker, and burned three others. [35]
A fuel tank truck crashed and people gathered at the accident site to collect the fuel. The tank truck exploded, initially burning 60 people to death. Video footage of the incident began circulating on social media, in which many people can be seen collecting fuel in yellow containers and jerrycans. [124]
A man was seriously injured when an underground fuel tank exploded at a Broward gas station Tuesday afternoon, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office Fire Rescue.
August 15 – An El Paso Natural Gas gas transmission pipeline exploded and burned in Coolidge, Arizona. 2 people were killed and another was seriously burned. [24] October 23 – A bulldozer operator hit a gas line, at a shopping center under construction in Brenham, Texas. This resulted in a fire engulfing the bulldozer.
A McKean Township man whose home in the 3300 block of East Stancliff Road was destroyed by fire on Aug. 1 is accused by the Pennsylvania State Police of creating a hazardous situation on the ...
Normally the gauges monitor the level of the fuel in the tank as it fills from the particular pipeline. From about 03:00 the level gauge for Tank 912 began to indicate an unchanging level reading, despite it being filled at 550 cubic metres (19,423 cu ft) per hour. [17] Calculations show that the tank would have begun to overflow at about 05:20.
Thousands of pages of records reviewed by The Times show L.A. County officials had for years described water infrastructure in areas where hydrants ran dry during the Palisades fire as 'leak prone ...