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Over the course of the day, the other tanks were drained. At 6:30 p.m. [b] Angara's body was found in the clear well, [14] a different tank it had drifted into. Before refilling the tanks and restoring service, the commission issued a boil-water order to customers as a precaution; this was lifted at the end of the following day. [9]
May 22, 2018 - A tank battery was destroyed, after it was struck by lightning and ignited near Hallsville. [197] May 29, 2018 - Lightning caused a tank battery fire northwest of Hays. [198] June 8, 2018 - A tank battery fire broke out in Pecos. [199] June 30, 2018 - A fire was reported at a tank battery, in Glasscock County. [200]
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 ...
A 500-gallon underground propane tank was found at a Virginia home that exploded Friday, killing one firefighter and injuring others, officials said Saturday.
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The explosion within the tank had been so powerful that the 48,000-pound (22,000 kg) lid of the tank had been blown off and landed in a parking lot about 200 yards (180 m) away. [11] Additionally, another nearby 15,000-US-gallon (57,000 L) tank was blown 200 feet (61 m) into a pipe rack. [11]
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Temperatures in the tank were off the scale, maxed out beyond 25 °C (77 °F), and the pressure in the tank was indicated at 280 kilopascals (40 psi). One employee witnessed a concrete slab above tank E610 crack as the emergency relief valve burst open, and pressure in the tank continued to increase to 380 kilopascals (55 psi), despite ...