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...

[Kojima]

Blaze at locked Chinese poultry slaughterhouse kills 119: state media [Reuters; 3 June 2013]

(Reuters) - A blaze at a locked poultry slaughterhouse in northeast China killed at least 119 people on Monday with several still unaccounted for, officials and state media said, triggering online outrage in a country with a grim record on fire safety.

The fire broke out just after dawn near Dehui in Jilin province. The provincial government said it sent more than 500 firefighters and more than 270 doctors and nurses to the scene, evacuating 3,000 nearby residents as a precaution.

China Central Television showed thick black smoke pouring from a low-slung, one-storey building with an arched roof over part of it.

Flames shot through some rooftop vents, and firefighters on the ground and on high ladders poured water onto the roof and onto smoldering debris inside the building.

CCTV showed a backhoe punching through a wall so firefighters could aim more water inside.

"It was so fast - we first saw a flash, then there was a big 'bang'," an unidentified employee of the slaughterhouse told CCTV. "We knew it was bad, so then we all ran. We didn't know what happened, we didn't know it was an explosion."

The death toll prompted President Xi Jinping, on a visit to Latin America and the United States, to issue instructions to care for the injured and vigorously investigate the cause of the disaster, holding accountable according to law all found to be responsible, the television reported.

Premier Li Keqiang called on firefighters and other emergency workers to proceed urgently to save lives as the top priority, CCTV said.

Local police said ammonia gas leaks might have caused the explosions, prompting the evacuation of residents, the China News Service reported.

More than 300 workers were in the plant at the time, with employees reporting hearing the bang and then seeing smoke, state news agency Xinhua said.

"About 100 workers have managed to escape from the plant whose gate was locked when the fire occurred," Xinhua said.

"The complicated interior structure of the prefabricated house in which the fire broke out and the narrow exits have added difficulties to the rescue work."

The exact number of people missing was unclear, as was the cause of the fire, Xinhua said. The Jilin government said 60 people were injured and had been rushed to hospital.

People took to social media sites to express their anger.

"Was this place never regularly inspected by fire safety authorities?" wrote one user on China's popular Twitter-like service Sina Weibo.

"Senior officials need to be sacked because of this," wrote another.

RELATIVES OF VICTIMS DEMAND EXPLANATION

Victims' relatives gathered outside the building to "demand the government investigate and announce the cause of the accident as soon as possible", Xinhua said.

Hong Kong's Phoenix Television cited family members as saying that the doors were always kept locked during working hours during which workers were forbidden to leave and that the slaughterhouse never carried out fire drills.

China's record is poor. Fire exits in factories are often locked or blocked and regulations can be easily skirted by bribing corrupt officials.

Jilin is a largely agricultural province and an important grower of corn and soy beans.

The slaughterhouse is owned by a small local feed and poultry producer called Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company, according to the government.

A fire at a nightclub in Shenzhen, just across the border from Hong Kong, killed 44 people in 2008. A senior policeman was jailed for taking bribes to allow the unlicensed venue to remain open.

One of modern China's worst fire disasters occurred in late 2000, when fire engulfed building workers at a discotheque in a mall in the central city of Luoyang, killing 309.

Many of China's deadly industrial accidents happen in the huge coal mining industry, in which more than 1,300 people died last year from explosions, mine cave-ins and floods.

(Additional reporting by Terril Yue Jones; Editing by Ron Popeski)

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The following is a reference map about the accident from the view of the plate movements.

[KM]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332616/Suspected-gas-explo...

Suspected gas explosion destroys terrace house and damages adjoining properties

• One man taken to hospital suffering from minor injuries in Tinsley, Sheffield
• Police say the gas explosion is the 'likely cause'
  

By Rob Cooper

PUBLISHED: 10:43 GMT, 29 May 2013 | UPDATED: 12:51 GMT, 29 May 2013

A terraced home has been destroyed and two neighbouring properties have been badly damaged following a suspected gas explosion.

Emergency services were at the scene in Tinsley, Sheffield, this morning following the blast.

One man has been taken to hospital with minor injuries but no one is believed to have been seriously hurt.

Wreckage: The burns this morning after the explosion completely destroyed the home in Sheffield

Dramatic pictures show the £50,000 mid-terraced property has fallen down completely following the blast.

Police cordoned off a number of surrounding roads following the blast this morning as the emergency services worked at the scene.

A spokesman for South Yorkshire Police said: 'Officers at the scene are waiting for the area to be made safe to enable them to progress the investigation, but initial reports suggest that a gas explosion is the likely cause.

'One property has been destroyed, and significant damage caused to the adjoining properties. Residents have been evacuated, and at this stage no serious injuries have been reported.

'One man was taken to hospital with suspected minor injuries.'

The spokesman added that all residents had been accounted for.

South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Tweeted: '150m cordon is in place at the Tinsley explosion & neighbouring properties have been evacuated. A house has been destroyed & 2 badly damaged.'

[Kojima]

Pipeline explosion halts gas supplies to southern China: Xinhua [The Times of India; 26 May 2013]

BEIJING: A section of a cross-country gas pipeline in China exploded on Sunday, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, local media said.

The second west-east natural gas pipeline, which transports gas from central Asia to south China, exploded in an industrial zone in China's southeastern province of Jiangxi, state news agency Xinhua said.

The pipeline has a capacity to transport 30 billion cubic metres of gas a year.

Energy released from the explosion knocked over people hundreds of metres away, Xinhua said, without detailing the length of the exploded pipeline. The government is investigating the cause of the explosion, the agency said.

China, the world's largest energy consumer, has two cross-country gas pipelines that carry gas imports across the nation. It is building a third.

The government wants to secure around 30 percent of China's natural gas consumption from imports, up from just 6 percent in 2007.

[KM]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22591002

Man killed and four injured in Newark house blast

An eyewitness describes how the building exploded as he was walking past with his family

Rescuers searching the remains of a house in Nottinghamshire that was destroyed in an explosion have found the body of man.

Four other people - a man, a woman and two children - were taken to hospital after the blast had reduced the house in Wright Street, Newark, to rubble.

The search for a missing sixth person who may still be inside will resume when the property is made safe.

Gas has been blamed for Sunday's blast, which happened at about 17:10 BST.

The dead man and the injured have not yet been named, while around 100 people living nearby were forced to leave their homes in the aftermath of the explosion.

Some of them are spending the night at the nearby Grove Leisure Centre.

Newborn baby

Police said the woman and two children were treated for the effects of breathing in smoke and subsequently discharged from Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre.

The man was taken to hospital with serious injuries and smoke inhalation and is still being treated.

Cormac Fleming, from Newark, witnessed the blast and helped with the rescue effort, plucking a newborn baby from the neighbour's damaged house.

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A man was crawling through the debris and he was bleeding. The whole house had come down.”

Isla McDonald Neighbour

"I live just a couple of streets away and was first on the scene, with my wife and two kids. We were walking our dog and got within 8ft of the house, when it exploded right in front of us," he said.

"The sheer force of the blast knocked my son off his bike. I rang 999 straight away.

"One house was completely destroyed and the house next to it was half-blown up.

"I then noticed a curtain moving in the house next door. I, and another man, smashed the window and next thing I was being handed a newborn baby."

He said a five-year-old and his mother, who was cut and in shock, followed the baby out.

Neighbours in Newark have been told to stay in doors and keep windows closed

They were led away from the rubble before Mr Fleming and the man returned to the house to try and help.

"We tried to see if anyone was in it from the back but it soon caught fire, so we pulled back and waited for the fire service to arrive."

'Like a bomb'

Isla McDonald, who lives opposite the damaged house, said: "We saw this smoke. A man was crawling through the debris and he was bleeding. The whole house had come down.

"We got him out and carried him up the path away from the smoke. The whole of the house was on fire this side. It was so frightening.

"We put something on his head, he said 'My wife's upstairs and my granddad is in the cellar'," she added.

Eduart Pergjejji also helped pull the man out of the rubble.

"The whole house was all down. It was insane," he said. "I've never seen anything like it. It's all down, the bricks have fallen on the street.

Police officers wearing face masks were helping the fire service crews

"It was really like a huge bomb exploding."

A visibly shaking Jane Henson said the house has been completely destroyed. She was the first to call 999 and provided the operator with a running commentary.

She said: "I felt the house shake. I looked out of the window and there was thick, black smoke.

"There were just people running everywhere shouting 'There's a bomb gone off' and just panic. It's awful, terrible."

Pirita Suomela, who lives nearby and was on the scene within minutes, said: "From where I was standing it looked like complete destruction."

She said she heard a loud bang and went outside to see "huge clouds of smoke coming up behind the trees".

A man was lying disorientated in the street with blood on his face.

"Within a minute of this I saw what can only be described as a tornado of smoke rising up with violent flames blasting a long way over the footpath, immediately in front of the house," she added.

A police spokesman advised residents to stay indoors and keep windows closed to reduce the effects of dust and any gas fumes.

Police asked around 100 people to leave their homes while alternative accommodation was offered to those who could not go to family and friends following the blast.

[Kojima]

Suspected gas explosion in Stevenage town centre [Comet24; 17 May 2013]

AN INVESTIGATION is underway to determine the cause of a suspected gas explosion.

The blast occurred at approximately 1:30am this morning in Stevenage town centre. Police were quick to arrive and section off the area.

Joe Davies, 19, witnessed the explosion whilst walking home from the train station. Mr Davies said: “It completely took me by surprise. The pavement seemed to burst apart and a flame about five feet high blew right in front of me.”

UK Power Networks completed repair work on the site at 7:30am and the area has been sectioned off temporarily.

Police sectioned off the area in the early hours of this morning

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.foundry-planet.com/index.php?id=110&tx_ttnews[year]=2013&tx_ttnews[month]=05&tx_ttnews[day]=06&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=12952&cHash=ca809bbe9f25ed9cef1a8a1395739909

06.05.2013

Illinois - Foundry Explosion Injures At Least 10 Workers

An explosion in an Illinois steel castings plant injured at least 10 workers.

The explosion occurred at the American Steel Foundries plant located in Granite City, Illinois, which is northeast of St. Louis. Three workers, who were in critical condition, were transported by helicopter to hospitals for treatment, including Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur, Missouri, while seven others were treated at Gateway Regional Medical Center in Granite City for smoke inhalation and later released.

“Industrial accidents of this nature are all too common,” said Robert Briskman, a Chicago work injury attorney. “Workers who are injured on the job need to be aware that they have legal rights.”

Approximately 800 people are employed at the plant, which manufactures undercarriages for railcars and related items. The blast occurred close to a grinding machine in the finishing department.

Federal officials are investigating the cause of the explosion. Robert Lott, president of Local 1063 of the United Steelworkers and a worker at the plant, told the Belleville News-Democrat that he believed a gas leak was the cause of the blast. Lott said he was working about 100 yards away from the explosion and could see flames. According to Lott, two of the injured workers may have suffered internal injuries and broken legs.

Mike Right, chief of health and safety for the United Steelworkers, said that the union was sending its own investigator to the plant to investigate the cause of the explosion. With 860,294 members, United Steelworkers is the largest industrial union in North America.

According to data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 2,200 workers were non-fatally injured by fires or explosions in 2011. There were 143 workplace deaths caused by fires or explosions in 2011, three percent of the total workplace fatalities. Twenty-nine of those deaths were in the manufacturing industry. This was a decrease from the previous year, which saw 191 workplace deaths caused by fires or explosions, 33 of them in the manufacturing industry.

American Steel Foundries is the largest manufacturer of steel castings in the United States. The company was formed in 1902 in a merger of eight different foundries, including the Granite City-based American Steel Foundry Company

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://wqad.com/2013/05/06/seven-narrowly-escape-moline-fire/

Seven People Narrowly Escape Moline Fire

Posted on: 7:13 am, May 6, 2013, by Jonathan Ketz, updated on: 07:40am, May 6, 2013

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Seven Moline residents are out of their home after a fire destroyed it early Monday.

It happened at the corner of 17th Street and 12th Avenue at about 3:30 a.m. Crews were on scene putting out a gas meter that exploded three hours later. The gas explosion happened on the northeast side of the home. The fire department is not confirming whether the explosion is what caused the fire.

Smoke was seen billowing out of the home for a half an hour later. The fire department says they will have a lot of work to do to clean this up the rest of the morning.

“We’re going to wait until we get the gas meter and the gas utility shut off to that structure, so that the gas is not burning to that building anymore,” Moline Fire Fighter Ike Sederstrom said. “Then we’ll get some heavy equipment in, and take that structure down.”

All seven people were able to escape from the fire. There were still 170 Mid American customers in Moline without power as of 7 a.m. Both west and east bound traffic is blocked off at 12th Avenue and 17th Street.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2013/05/03/1-injured-after-E...

1 injured after East Toledo natural gas explosion

An unidentified Columbia Gas of Ohio employee was being treated today at Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center for burns to his face after natural gas from an underground pipeline caught fire and flared up at him about 11:45 a.m.

The accident occurred in the 800 block of Utah Street, an East Toledo residential neighborhood.

Columbia Gas has no reason to believe the worker veered from normal safety procedures the utility has established for when repairs are made to underground pipelines.

"It's very rare, but it happens sometimes," Chris Kozak, Columbia Gas spokesman, said, noting that pipeline repairs are a risky business under the best of circumstances.

A couple of nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution, but residents were allowed back inside once Toledo firefighters and Columbia Gas officials had the scene secured.

The employee is part of a crew that was making repairs to an old, 4-inch-wide pipeline that had developed a small leak. He was in a hole where the pipeline is located, about four feet deep, Mr. Kozak said.

The utility spokesman described the injury as "serious, but not life threatening." Two police officers said the man was able to walk to the ambulance on his own power, holding his face.

Mr. Kozak said he was not sure if Columbia Gas would be releasing the man's name.

The event was described by Mr. Kozak as a flare-up, not an explosion. Officials aren't sure what sparked it, he said.

More may be known once fire water is pumped out of the hole, Mr. Kozak said.

Officials have described the injuries as second-degree burns

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://newsfixnow.com/2013/05/03/oil-tank-explosion-forces-evacuati...

Oil tank explosion forces evacuations near Baton Rouge

DENHAM SPRINGS, LA – A fire in the sky. No, we`re not talking alien abductions!

This is far more believable, but probably just as frightening.

An oil tank ruptured and exploded near Baton Rouge, scaring the bejeezus out of nearby residents.

“We heard a big explosion and come up over there and they said one of the oil tanks had exploded and it almost knocked my wife down. Yeah man, it was kinda crazy. She didn’t know what was going on, she thought somebody had just pushed her down you know,” said Corey Downing.

“I was sitting reading and a big boom went off and I knew it wasn’t thunder and lightning, so I come outside and looked and the tank farm down the road blew up,” said Bill Tierney.

State emergency officials say 30 homes were evacuated, but no one was hurt.

Officials are just going to let the fire burn itself out.

Once it’s out, crews will be able to go in and investigate what caused the explosion.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://rt.com/usa/explosion-refinery-detroit-tanker-520/

Massive explosion rocks Marathon Detroit Refinery

Published time: April 27, 2013 23:31
Edited time: April 28, 2013 16:20

A tank containing diesel fuel has exploded during maintenance work at Marathon Detroit Refinery, forcing a mandatory evacuation order for a nearby area. One employee has been injured in the blast, authorities said.

Reports of the explosion and fire came in just before 6 pm local time.

Authorities on the ground say the explosion injured an employee. The incident occurred during a maintenance check.

Marathon spokesman Shane Pochard tells the Detroit Free Press the small fire Wednesday morning was extinguished quickly and the worker had minor injuries.

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The adjacent city of Melvindale however ordered a partial evacuation due to concerns over air quality from the fire rise. State police also closed ramps from I-75 to Schaefer in both directions.

“Police have blocked Fort Street off by I-75 south … oh my goodness … there’s an ambulance out here, a fireman standing outside, you know, it doesn’t look like they are trying to get close. They are not trying to go in there,” one listener told the local radio station.

A witness, Dan Taylor told the Detroit News that “I saw the fire ball. The whole top of the tank was on fire and you could see it melted.”

The fire erupted in one of the refinery’s smaller tanks, Pochard told the Detroit Free Press.

Marathon’s own fire crew were battling the flames, along with first responders from Detroit and surrounding areas. At least two trucks at the scene were streaming water and two trucks were streaming foam.

A HazMat team from the Detroit Fire Department and Senior Fire Chief Carl Smith were at the scene as well. The fire was extinguished just before 8 pm local time.

About 300 Marathon employees and additional 300-400 contractors work at the refinery, Peter Brokas, the head of security told the Detroit Free Press.