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A hydrogen tank for a balloon in a pick-up truck bed exploded, injuring 2. The Detroit Fire Department believes a leak in the hydrogen tank caused the explosion. [85] 22 April 2022 Towanda, Pennsylvania: A hydrogen tank at Global Tungsten & Powders Corp. exploded. A spokesperson for the company said five employees were taken to hospitals with ...
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]
The precise cause of the explosion is not yet known. [5] [16] There were no reports of anything abnormal at the plant before the explosion. [16] A worker at the plant reported the cause was a fire in a natural gas tanker that spread to the benzoyl storage tank, [18] but this has not been confirmed.
Jul. 26—Golden Empire Transit District has declined to give the Bakersfield Fire Department a copy of a video showing the fire that destroyed a $1.1 million hydrogen-powered passenger bus last ...
The Tsar Bomba far surpassed the largest explosion the United States has ever conducted - a 15-megaton "Castle Bravo" hydrogen bomb detonated on Bikini Atoll in 1954. (Reporting by Maria Vasilyeva ...
2010 South Kivu fuel tank explosion: 28 July 2010 China: Nanjing: 13 300 2010 Nanjing chemical plant explosion: 9 September 2010 United States: San Bruno, California: 8 58 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion: 19 November 2010 New Zealand: Westcoast: 29 2 Pike River Mine disaster: 1 December 2010 Nigeria: Lagos State: 20 Unknown Alakija tanker ...
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
The fireball created by the explosion had a maximum radius of 2.9 to 3.3 km (1.8 to 2.1 mi). [20] [21] [22] The maximum radius was reached several seconds after the detonation, during which the hot fireball lifted up due to buoyancy. While still relatively close to the ground, the fireball had yet to reach its maximum dimensions and was thus ...