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Trevor brown, 45, killed after responding to incident in Loudoun County outside Wahington DC
He died while responding to a gas leak that prompted an explosion at a home in the 300 block of Silver Ridge Drive on Feb. 16. The leak involved a 500-gallon underground propane tank that had been ...
Loudoun County Fire and Rescue were called to the home in Sterling around 7:40 p.m. for a gas leak, Chief Keith Johnson said at a news conference. house explosion fire caution tape (NBC Washington)
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A BLEVE–fireball at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, as rendered by the CSB. A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, / ˈ b l ɛ v iː / BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that is or has reached a temperature sufficiently higher than its boiling point at atmospheric pressure.
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The firefighters were called to the home in Sterling, Virginia, by a report of a gas smell shortly after 7:30 p.m. and a fiery explosion took place about 30 minutes later, fire officials said.