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A pipeline explosion in La Porte, Texas caused a massive flame to shoot hundreds of feet into the air, leading to evacuations in the area. ... Video from the area after the explosion showed a ...
A truck carrying liquified petroleum gas caught fire and exploded overnight near an industrial area in central Pakistan, killing six people and injuring more than two dozen others, officials said ...
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.
BLEVE–fireball, 2008 Toronto propane explosion The following is a list of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) accidents. It shows whether the accident occurred during dangerous goods transportation or at a fixed facility, the accident origin (e.g., storage, process reactor, rail tank car, tank truck), the material involved, its amount, the number of fatalities, and whether a ...
The 2012 Astrakhan gas explosion occurred on February 27, 2012, at an apartment building in the city of Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. It was caused by a natural gas explosion. It was caused by a natural gas explosion.
Photographs and videos showed extensive destruction in and around the warehouse compound, [34] [35] with an enormous crater at the blast site. [15] The buildings of seven more surrounding logistics companies were destroyed, [ 36 ] and large quantities of intermodal container stacks were toppled and thrown by the forces of the explosions. [ 34 ]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. 2020 Beirut explosion Aftermath of the explosion, with the destroyed grain silos to the left and the flooded blast crater to the right. Date 4 August 2020 (2020-08-04) Time 18:08:18 EEST (UTC+03:00) Venue Port of Beirut Location Beirut, Lebanon Coordinates 33°54′05″N 35°31′09″E ...
The collision involved a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) road tanker, another articulated lorry carrying flammable solvents and a car transporter.It took place on the northbound carriageway of the ramo Casalecchio (Casalecchio branch) of the A14 motorway, which connects the A1 motorway to the A14 main route, within Borgo Panigale, a neighbourhood of Bologna, Italy.