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On February 3, 2021, a gas explosion damaged a home in Springfield, Virginia, and injured three people. [50] On February 17, 2021, a gas explosion demolished a house in Manchester, England. 1 person lost their life and 2 others were injured. [citation needed] On May 4, 2021, a gas explosion demolished a house in Willesborough, England. 7 people ...
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 faulty procedure used caused natural gas to build up in homes within a matter of minutes. Multiple explosions and fires were reported over a very short period of time in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover beginning about 4:15 pm . [9] Through the evening emergency crews responded to between 40 and 80 fires.
July 28 – A gas line explosion and fire occurred in Martin County, Texas, which injured four workers. A ditching truck hit an existing high-pressure gas line, causing an explosion and fire. [6] July 29 – A contractor ruptured a gas pipeline in Mont Belvieu, Texas, causing an explosion and fire. There were no injuries.
In the early morning of June 21, 2019, a fire and multiple explosions occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.A release of hydrocarbons and hydrofluoric acid in the refinery's alkylation unit caused a ground-hugging vapor cloud which rapidly ignited, leading to three separate explosions minutes apart from each other.
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 ...
When people see a wildfire’s destruction — the charred rubble and pools of melted aluminum from car wheels — they often assume the fire ignited in shrubbery, then barreled toward a ...
1946 Greenville propane explosion; 1963 Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum gas explosion; 1970 New York City gas explosion; 1973 Staten Island gas explosion; 1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster; 2016 Portland, Oregon gas explosion; 2019 Durham gas explosion; 2019 Philadelphia refinery explosion; 2020 Houston explosion