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An 8-day long fire then consumed at least 45 acres of storage tanks and damaged nearby homes and businesses. In addition to a boy killed in his home, one Standard Oil workman died of a heart attack, another 40 were injured, and 1,500 evacuated. [49] On Nov 23, 1957, 2 workers were killed in a Whiting Standard of Indiana refinery fire. [49]
Oklahoma police said an evacuation order for residents near the ONEOK natural gas plant will be extended until at least Sunday evening following a fire on Saturday. The Deer Creek Volunteer Fire ...
September 7 – A gas pipeline being tested in Detroit, Michigan exploded and burned, injuring one person, and destroying 50 cars. [45] October 10 – A crew cleaning the outside of a natural gas pipeline with a heavy rubber ball ruptured a coupler, causing an explosion and fire east of Orleans, Indiana. Two members of the crew were killed, and ...
Crews were battling a large fire at a manufacturing business in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Tuesday, local officials said.. Multiple photos of a large, black plume of smoke were circulating online ...
A fire Saturday at an Oklahoma facility that handles natural gas prompted mandatory evacuations for a wide swath of homes and businesses near the Medford plant.
Oklahoma had become a state on wheels, although the roads those wheels were rolling over were designed for horse and buggy travel. One clear indication of the arrival of the automobile age in Oklahoma was the shocking number of people killed in vehicular accidents - about five hundred a year by the mid-1920s.
c. 53 (in fire and explosion) c. 400–500 (in fire and explosion) Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead – During a large fire, a bonded warehouse used to store combustibles such as sulphur and nitrate of soda exploded, killing onlookers and destroying the neighborhood. 17 July 1856 United States: Whitemarsh Township: 59–67 c. 100
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