Explosions on the rise

[Kojima]

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An oil field exploded in Basra Iraq [Iraq Oil Report ; Published September 20, 2011]; Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

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List of comment about gas explosion, in order of posted time; as of 2011-09-01

 

1) SOMERVILLE, Ohio, US; "Investigation continues in house collapse"

2) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. US; "Bakersfield resident hurt in natural gas explosion"

3) Pompton Lakes, NJ, US; "Update: Suspected gas explosion levels home in Pompton Lakes [raw video]"

4) Brantford, Ontario, Canada; "Natural gas explosion levelled Brantford house: fire marshal"

5) Warren, MI, US; "City of Warren Home Explosion Underscores Need for Natural Gas Safety"

6) Castleford, West Yorkshire, UK; "Dramatic footage shows huge gas explosion at Yorkshire home"

7) Warren Park, Harare, Zimbabwe; "2 seriously injured in Warren Park gas explosion"

8) Logan City, south of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia; "Seven children killed in gas explosion at house"

9) Herscher, IL, US; Douglasville, GA, US; "This Week In Natural Gas Leaks and Explosions – Aug. 22, 2011"

10) "Seven children killed in gas explosion at house" [See 8)]

11) Lakeview, MI, US; "Explosion inside Lakeview house causes fire, couple escapes with minor injuries"

12) Newborough, Victoria, Australia; "Gas blast destroys Newborough garage"

13) Cato, Montcalm, MI, US; "Couple escapes house explosion"

14) Glenrock, Converse, WY, US; "Oilfield explosion claims three"

15) St. Augustine, Fla, US; "Gas Station Explosion Site in St. Augustine now 'Stable'"

 

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* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

We'll be seeing an uptick in unusual home and business gas explosions and I'm trying to locate specific ZT on the matter.  Below is a refresher for the many gas related news articles.

http://zetatalk5.com/index/blog0214.htm

SOZT

Fault lines, when adjusting, do not just rip apart one day during a dramatic earthquake. They most often creep. Laying gas lines along or across a fault line is asking for an accident of this sort. Fault lines are also seldom so clearly delineated that one can go a mile in this or that direction and avoid their action. Where a slip-slide fault such as the San Andreas will often leave a clear line on the surface, this is only the surface action, not what occurs in the rock layers on either side which can fracture for a long way to either side during any movement. The gas company, or the age of the pipes, will be faulted but in truth the finger should be pointed in many directions. The public, who insist on living at such a scenic spot, is to blame. Officials, who zoned for housing are to blame. The public utility company, for allowing gas lines in the area, is to blame. But this will change nothing, while man continues to live on the San Andreas, even as it awakens. EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/18sp2010.htm

SOZT

The danger from radon gas will not be increased as a result of the pole shift. Radon gas is emitted by rock containing uranium, which is degrading. In normal circumstances, where air can circulate, it is disbursed rapidly as is any methane created by decay of organic material. The danger from these gasses comes from confinement - being trapped in a mine, a basement, or beneath the permafrost. The dangers are well known. For methane, it is explosions. An accumulation of methane gas can be identified by the smell of rotten eggs, or as some have described it, dirty socks or cabbage soup. For radon gas the danger is lung cancer, from the continual exposure to the radioactive air. Radon gas is odorless, and cannot be detected except by specialized equipment not in the hands of the average person.

In that the pole shift, or the Earth changes preceding the pole shift, can fracture rock and release pockets of either gas, survivors should be cautious about huddling in bunkers. You are safer out in the open air, or in a trench you have dug that will allow the pole shift winds to pass over you, but nothing to fall on and crush you. The fact that both methane gas and radon gas can accumulate in the bunkers of the elite is one of the reasons we have stated that they have dug their own graves. EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/12mr2011.htm

 

* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

SOZT

Anyone watching the news, for instance the news on the San Bruno explosion in a distribution line close to the San Andreas Fault line, knows that gas in any form is a danger. Oil and gas refineries explode when rigid piping cracks. Oil or gas wells explode when the ground around them moves. And the gas distribution lines running under cities are no exception. They likewise will explode. Gas lines, whether along the street or within a home, are rigid. In some cases automatic shutoff valves can limit the amount of gas available for an explosion by sensing a drop in pressure, but this is always after the fact. The explosion has already occurred. Utilizing gas on a planet prone to earthquakes was a mistake to begin with, but man never thinks of the consequences when striving for modern conveniences. We have advised turning off the gas at the street, though when the street explodes and your neighbor's homes are on fire you are not likely to escape the holocaust. A better alternative is to live in an area where gas is not available, as in your rural safe location where you will be doing a form of camping while gardening. A campfire at night, for cooking and washing and a bit of friendly light before bed. Nothing explosive. EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/ning/02oc2010.htm

 

* Comment by Starr DiGiacomo

SOZT Answer: It is no accident that the New Madrid fault lies under the Mississippi River near Memphis, as rivers form in lowlands created when land pulls apart, separating the rock fingers and weakening support for the land. Thus, the Ohio River bed also is an indication of where rock fingers will pull apart. Two adjustments in Kentucky, a day apart, are not an accident, but an indication of the speed at which the stretch zone is starting to adjust. Rail lines are frequently an early harbinger of such adjustments, as they run long distances, whereas structures within cities, such as tall buildings, take up relatively little space and have a small footprint. Our warning that imploding cities will be experienced, before the hour of the shift, are in this regard. Be warmed, it will not just be your rail lines and gas and water mains that will shatter and be pulled apart during the stretch. The foundations of your tall buildings will likewise be vulnerable.EOZT

http://www.zetatalk5.com/newsletr/issue008.htm

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[Original post on January 20, 2011]

Original title: Gas explosion kills 1, injures 5 in Philadelphia

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/19/pennsylvania.gas.explosion/index.h...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The explosion occurred in Philadelphia's Tacony neighborhood
• The blast killed one utilities worker and injured five other people
• Some of the injuries are serious

(CNN) -- A gas main explosion in Philadelphia Tuesday evening killed one utilities worker and injured five other people, a fire department official said.

Philadelphia Gas Works employees were responding to a gas main break in the city's Tacony neighborhood when the explosion occurred, fire department spokesman Jim Smith said.

"They were trying to control it and found a source of ignition," according to Smith, who said four PGW employees and a firefighter were among the injured. He said some of the gas workers' injuries were serious.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/natural-gas-explosion-philadelphia-...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/caught-on-tape-gas-main-explodes-126...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10590452.60_evacuated_after_B...

60 evacuated after Berwick house explosion

7:22pm Friday 2nd August 2013 in News

POLICE have evacuated 60 people after an explosion at a house in Berwick.

Northumbria Police say at 5.49pm today (Friday), officers received a report of an explosion at the property in Howick Terrace.

"Police and fire services are at the scene and a number of houses in Howick Terrace have been evacuated as a precaution," said a spokesman.

"Around 60 people have been taken to a rest centre set up by the local authority.

"It is not believed that anyone was in the house at the time of the explosion.

"The gas board are currently in attendance in order to make the scene safe."

[Tracie Crespo]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/30/19763731-at-least-seven-...

At least seven injured, three critically, after blasts rock Florida propane plant

Tyler Mackenzie Photography

A series of explosions engulfed a propane plant in flames in Tavares, Florida, late Monday. This photo was taken at 11.36 p.m. from a location between 1-2 miles from the blast.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News

A series of explosions engulfed a propane plant in flames in Tavares, Fla., late Monday, injuring at least seven people — three of them critically — and forcing evacuations for a half-mile around the scene, authorities said.

The explosions began as a fire spread through the Blue Rhino plant in Lake County, near Orlando, about 10:30 p.m. ET, Lake County sheriff's Lt. John Herrell told reporters early Tuesday. Seven people were taken to hospitals, two by helicopter, he said. All of them were in the plant when the fire started.

Watch live coverage on WESH-TV

Residents of the area told NBC station WESH of Orlando that flames from the explosions could be seen for several miles, but there were no reports of damage to the surrounding buildings.  

WESH-TV

Flames from the Blue Rhino propane plant in Tavares, Fla., seen from the air Monday night.

"It sounds like bombs are going off," Norma Haygood, a nearby resident, told WESH.

No deaths were immediately reported, Herrell said. Three male victims were in critical condition, the Orlando Regional Medical Center, told NBC News. 

Two were airlifted, while a third was still being transported by ambulance at 3:00 a.m ET.  

Authorities initially declared a one-mile evacuation zone around the plant, but they later scaled that back to a half-mile, effective until 6 a.m. ET. 

"We feel that there is no longer any danger" to the area around the plant, Herrell said.

Twenty-four or 26 people were scheduled to work the night shift at the 33,000-acre facility, according to plant managers, Herrell said. Authorities initially said 15 people were unaccounted for, but Herrell later said the company's management said that they had accounted for all of the people it knew were in the plant at the time of the initial explosion.

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Some of them showed up at others location, according to Blue Rhino, Herrell said. He said he had no further information on where the others were.

The plant housed about 53,000 20-pound propane cylinders, Herrell said.

"They store the propane cylinders on different parts of the property, and as the fire spread, there were more and more explosions," he said. 

Explosions continued but were diminishing at 1 a.m. ET Tuesday, 2½ hours after the first blasts were reported.

Don Ingram, former plant production supervisor at the plant, said his son felt one of the explosions in their home 6 miles away.

Ingram told WESH that the back area of the plant is "lined with propane tanks stacked four or five high on plastic pallets."

 "I don't think you fight this fire," he said. "It's just too dangerous."

Blue Rhino is a subsidiary of Ferrellgas Partners, the second-largest distributor of propane in the U.S.

Azhar Fateh of NBC News contributed to this report.

[Tracie Crespo]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/29/19756387-explosion-level...

Explosion levels Philadelphia row house; infant among six injured

By Karen Araiza, NBC Philadelphia

A South Philadelphia row home exploded and collapsed Monday, sending six people to the hospital and shifting the routine of the day into a panic-stricken morning for neighbors.

The injured include four adults, a 15-year-old girl and an infant. Additional rescue units have been called to the scene in the 400 block of Daly Street.

Laura McColgan lives around the corner. "I'm still shaking," she said, recounting her experience.

"I was upstairs brushing my teeth. I heard a very loud noise. Not being sure what it was, I came downstairs and went out my back door," McColgan said. "I went outside and saw everyone running around the corner. I saw the building down, saw the smoke and smelled the horrible smell of gas as well."

Danielle James was leaning out her second-story window, talking to a neighbor at the moment of the blast.

"I thought somebody dropped a bomb in the middle of my block! It went boom! And then you just seen glass fly from over the roof,"

James said. "I went through every room and took my kids and just said, 'Get out now!'"

James said her husband mentioned last night that he smelled gas.

Emergency crews shut off traffic in the immediate area and went door-to-door to get people out of their homes, as a precaution. Utility crews are on the scene. Daly Street has been evacuated and six homes on Wolf Street, which is just South of Daly Street.

"It definitely was an explosion," McColgan said.

The home, at 426 Daly Street looks shredded. Adjoining homes are also damaged.

Fire officials confirmed that it was an explosion anda that they are investigation whether it was caused by a gas leak. They say a private contractor was working in the basement of the home when the explosion occurred. He was burned and taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Some of the victims are from neighboring homes. The baby, who neighbors say is 6 or 7-months old,  lives at 428 Daly and the teenager, lives at 430 Daly.

Daly Street sits in a residential area of South Philadelphia, populated by row homes.

[Tracie Crespo]

Blaze erupts on Gulf of Mexico rig after natural gas blowout

BSEE via EPA

A handout photo released by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) shows gas spewing from the Hercules 265 gas rig on Tuesday.

By Christopher Nelson and Henry Austin, NBC News

A fire erupted on drilling rig off the Louisiana coast that was surrounded by a “major cloud of gas” after it experienced a blowout, officials said late Tuesday.

The blaze began about 10:50 p.m. local time (11:50 p.m. ET) on the Hercules 265 natural gas platform, which is located around 55 miles off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico.

Eileen Angelico, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, said no one was on board when the fire started. The cause of the blaze was unknown early Wednesday.

She added that personnel from Wild Well Inc had been brought in to try and get the well under control, but when they’d approached the blaze Tuesday night they’d determined it was unsafe to get any closer when they were 200ft away from it. 

The BSSE also said that a specialist boat, with both water and foam firefighting abilities, had been dispatched to tackle the blaze.

Earlier on Tuesday, 44 workers were evacuated on two lifeboats after the gas began spewing to the surface. None of them were injured, NBC station WDSU reported.

A Coast Guard cutter and two aircraft were sent to assess the situation and BSEE inspectors reported that a cloud of natural gas had formed over the well.

“A light sheen could be seen on the water one-half mile by 50 feet,” the BSEE said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that the sheen appeared to be quickly dissipating.  

The portable drilling rig known as a jackup rig, was operated by Hercules Offshore. In a news release, Hercules Offshore said that they were working for Houston-based Walter Oil & Gas Corp.

Walter Oil & Gas reported to the BSEE that the rig was completing a "sidetrack well" — a means of re-entering the original well bore, Angelico said.

Sidetrack wells are sometimes drilled to remedy a problem with the existing well bore.

"It's a way to overcome an engineering problem with the original well," Ken Medlock, an energy expert at Rice University's Baker Institute told the Associated Press. "They're not drilled all the time, but it's not new."

In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers and eventually spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/24/19652537-blaze-erupts-on...

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine-abroad/ria-novosti-one-dead...

RIA Novosti: One dead, three injured in Ukrainian coalmine blast

July 14, 2013, 6:50 p.m. | Ukraine abroad — by RIA Novosti

Coal remains a major driver of Ukraine's economy, particularly in the country's east, despite the dangers associated and the proliferation of illegal mines.

One miner died and three others were injured in a sudden blast of gas and coal at a coalmine in the Donetsk Region in east Ukraine, the Ukrainian Emergencies Ministry’s press office reported on Sunday.

The blast occurred at the Shcheglovskaya-Glubokaya mine in the town of Makeyevka early on Sunday, trapping three miners underground. A total of 130 miners managed to leave the accident-hit area on their own. One of them was hospitalized with the signs of methane gas poisoning.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/5011509/Several-injured-in-Kil...

Several injured in Killarney explosion

By Niall O'Conner

Published: 7 hrs ago

FIRE fighters will shortly begin sifting brick by brick through debris at the scene of a devastating explosion to try and find a missing man.

It is feared that the owner of a laundrette was buried under tons of rubble in the explosion shortly after 6am.

The blast happened in a Launderette at Brewery Lane, Killarney and Gardaí believe it was as a result of gas explosion.

The town of Killarney was shook by the monster eruption and windows along Plunkett Street were smashed.

Rubble filled Brewery Lane as rescue workers began the grim task of removing the tangled brick work of the now demolished launderette.

image from this link:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/concerns-grow-for-man-missing-...

[Tracie Crespo]

Gas explosion AND collapse

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Chinatown-Fire-Explosion-Henry...

8 Hurt in Manhattan Fire, Explosion and Partial Collapse

By                                                                                                                                                                                                          Shimon Prokupecz and                                                            Tracie Strahan

|  Thursday, Jul 11, 2013  |  Updated 3:23 PM EDT

Eight people were hurt after an explosion rocked a commercial space on the first floor of a Chinatown building and sent flames into the apartments on its upper floors, authorities said.

Three of the injuries were described as serious and five were not life-threatening.

A law enforcement official says the explosion in the five-story building on Pike Street, near Henry Street, in New York possibly came from a faulty severed gas line in the basement.

FDNY said there was also a partial collapse of the rear first floor, which is shared by a bus company and a beauty parlor.

The people most seriously injured were in homes on the second and third floors.

Smoke could be seen billowing from the neighborhood after the blast.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Manhole-Explosions-Upper-West-...

Manhole Explosions Cut Power on Upper West Side

Several buildings are without power after four manholes exploded on the Upper West Side

Manhole explosions on the Upper West Side have cut power to several buildings, officials say. 

Four manholes exploded in the area of 72nd Street and Riverside Drive, causing some buildings to lose power, according to Con Edison.

The utility company expects the power to return at some point Wednesday night. It is investigating what caused the underground explosions.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-gas-explosion-siberia/25040064....

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

Russia

Gas Blast At Hydropower Plant In Siberia Kills Two

July 08, 2013

Agas explosion at the Krasnoyarsk hydropower plant on the Yenisei River in East Siberia has killed two people and injured at least one. 

A spokesman for the Krasnoyarsk regional branch of the Interior Ministry said that the accident occurred on July 8 during repainting work at the facility.

The blast did not affect the work of one of Siberia's main hydropower plants.

The plant, built from 1956 to 1972, supplies 6,000 megawatts of power and is mostly used to supply the Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant.

At this point it's not clear what caused the explosion.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/region/eight-injured-in-w...

Eight injured in W.Va. gas well explosion

July 7, 2013 4:05 pm

A West Virginia natural gas well exploded early Sunday morning, injuring eight people.

Doddridge County EMS said the well, located about an hour southwest of Morgantown in New Milton and owned by Denver-based Antero Resources, ignited at about 4 a.m. Four people were flown to West Penn Hospital's burn center; the other four were treated locally.

Officials don't know why the well exploded, though they said the fire is now under control.

Several family members drove up to Pittsburgh to be with the victims.

That included Diana Arbogast, who sat with her family in the waiting room of West Penn Hospital's burn unit on Sunday, waiting for news from the doctor. Her husband, Charlie, a rigger and trucker who was working at the well pad, received third-degree burns on his knees, forearms, hands and face, she said.

She hadn't spoken with him since Friday, when he left for work at the Antero Resources drill site. The 57-year-old had been gone for more than 40 hours before the explosion, and she wonders if his employer followed mandatory work hour rules.

The next time she heard from Charlie, he was riding in an ambulance to the hospital, she said. He couldn't speak to her, but a coworker relayed the message: He loved her.

"You come to the rigs, you do what you do and you don't ask questions," Ms. Arbogast said. "Not if you want your job."

Family members said five people were flown to Pittsburgh, not four. They had already been visited by two safety workers investigating the accident, but no one was sure what happened.

Additional source

http://www.wdtv.com/wdtv.cfm?func=view&section=5-News&item=...