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]

2 firemen burned in gas explosion; W. Haverstraw families back after evacuation

Verizon says contractor sparks blast with digging near West Haverstraw condos

http://www.lohud.com/article/20120117/NEWS03/301170060/2-firemen-bu...|newswell|text|News|p

UPDATE:  90 displaced families

WEST HAVERSTRAW — Two volunteer firefighters remained hospitalized Monday night with serious burns after leaking gas caused an explosion, destroying a townhouse and displacing 90 families.

The volunteer firefighters were at the front door of 52 Zarriello Lane when the explosion blew them 25 to 30 feet and turned the building into a pile of rubble.

The two seriously injured firefighters, Ken Patterson and fire instructor Jerry Knapp, were taken to Westchester Medical Center in Vallhalla following the 12:37 p.m. explosion.

The firefighters were knocking on front doors on Zarriello Lane as part of a precautionary evacuation of about 100 homes. Instead, hundreds of residents were displaced while emergency personnel worked at the scene.

As a result of the explosion and fire, hundreds of people were kept from their homes until nearly midnight, waiting for units to be declared safe and power to be restored in the Village Fairgrounds II development off Route 9W, said Gordon Wren Jr., Rockland Fire and Emergency Services coordinator.

Knapp, who lives near the development and is West Haverstraw’s emergency coordinator, suffered first- and second-degree burns to his face, West Haverstraw Mayor John Ramundo said. Patterson, who is employed by the village Department of Public Works, suffered severe burns to a leg.

Neither firefighter suffered life-threatening injuries, a staff member at Westchester Medical Center told The Journal News. Patterson is in serious condition in the trauma intensive care unit.

Monday’s explosion also injured two Orange and Rockland Utilities employees, who were not as seriously hurt. One was taken to Nyack Hospital and the other to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, where he was remaining overnight for observation.

“They were lucky to get out of there alive,” Raymond Florida, Rockland Paramedic Services executive director, said from the fire scene. “There’s a gaping hole where the houses used to be. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/latest-news/people_evacuated_in...

People evacuated in Deeping St James gas explosion

Published on Tuesday 17 January 2012 08:19

AROUND 20 people were evacuated from seven homes last night (Monday) at Deeping St James following a gas explosion and fire in Manor Way.

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue say gas leaking from an underground main was ignited by an electrical switch in a sewage pumping plant – blowing the doors off the “shed-like” installation into the road and setting the plant on fire.

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue alerted police at 7.40pm and officers asked nearby families to leave their homes as a safety precaution.

Officers also guarded the scene while emergency services dealt with the incident.

A police spokesman said no one was hurt in the incident and the families were allowed to return home after the area was made safe at around 3am today.

Fire severely damaged the sewage pumping electrical switch station and four metres of fencing.

A fire crew from Market Deeping was sent to Manor Way shortly after 7pm and a further crew from Crowland was asked to assist.

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue spokesman Steve Pembroke said British Gas attended to carry out repairs.

Mr Pembroke said: “The doors of the sewage switch station were blown into the road. It probably went off with quite a loud bang.”

[Starr DiGiacomo]

Huge Gas Explosion Levels Rockland County Townhouse, Forces Evacuations

http://gothamist.com/2012/01/16/huge_gas_explosion_levels_rockland.php

(Courtesy ABC 7)

A townhouse was completely destroyed by a gas main explosion today in the Rockland County town of West Haverstraw. Officials say a road construction crew had ruptured the gas main near the property around noon. Workers immediately notified authorities, and volunteer firefighters raced to the area to begin evacuating residents. As two volunteer firefighters were knocking on the door to evacuate a house on Zarriello Lane, it exploded. LoHud.com reports that the volunteers were seriously injured.

So far it's believed that no one was inside the house. Gas from the ruptured main went into the sewerage system and seeped into many houses, and at least 100 homes have been evacuated. Power to much of the surrounding area has been cut, and besides the firefighters, two workers also suffered injuries, ABC 7 reports. We'll update as more information becomes available.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.lohud.com/article/20120116/NEWS03/301160096/Gas-leak-blo...

Gas leak blows up West Haverstraw townhouse

WEST HAVERSTRAW— Leaking gas from a ruptured line blew up a townhouse today, causing a large gas-fed blaze that turned the building into a pile of rubble and led emergency responders to evacuate more than 100 homes and call for medical helicopter to transport at least two injured West Haverstraw firefighters to the Westchester County Medical Center.

The explosion left much of West Haverstraw without electricity as utility crews turned off power to avoid the possibility of sparks setting off more gas explosions.

The firefighters were at the door of the townhouse on Zarriello Lane off Route 9W when the explosion occurred at 12:37 p.m., injuring at least two volunteers seriously and an unknown number of other volunteers.

“They knocked on the door at 52 Zarriello right before the explosion,” Orange and Rockland Utilities spokesman Michael Donovan said. “No one answered, so we assume no one was home.”

Dozens of people, including the Haverstraw police Chief Charles Miller and other responders, were kept far away from the scene, for fear of additional explosions.

Emergency personnel said they didn’t know how much gas had leaked from the sewers into other clusters of townhouses in the development after a road construction crew ruptured a gas line. Part of the development is located behind the Hi-Tor Lanes bowling alley and KFC

Miller said he didn’t know the conditions of those injured and wasn’t told about any fatalities.

Emergency personnel set up headquarters at the nearby bowling alley and prepared a landing strip for the medical helicopter at West Haverstraw Elementary School.

Rockland Emergency Services Coordinator Gordon Wren Jr. said a routine gas leak response by West Haverstraw firefighters turned into a castrophe when the house exploded. He said a gas main ruptured and the gas went into the sewerage system and seeped into the houses.

Donovan said at 12:13 p.m. the utility was told that a road construction crew hit a gas main while digging. The utility sent a crew and firefighters were told to begin evacuating the area.

O&R crews were shutting down power to the area and Haverstraw Transit Co. sent three buses to Stop&Shop.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/three-family-members-are-ta...

Three family members are taken to hospital after gas blast rocks house

GAS experts from the UK were brought in yesterday to try to determine what caused a gas explosion in a Kildare housing estate, which left three people in hospital.

One theory being investigated is that a gas leak occurred in a pipe leading into a house. Three separate investigations -- by Bord Gais, by the Commission for Energy Regulation assisted by Bord Gais and by the gardai -- are under way after the explosion ripped through 48 Riverdale Court, Leixlip, in the early hours of Saturday.

A couple and their daughter were brought to hospital while houses were evacuated in case of further leaks. The wife, in her late 50s, was seriously hurt, although her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. Her husband and their daughter were not badly hurt.

The blast, which damaged the upper floor of the house, happened after Bord Gais teams had been called out to deal with a suspected gas leak next door at number 49.

A 76-year-old man died yesterday after a road crash in Rosslare, Co Wexford. The incident happened at 11.15am at Rosslare Harbour when the man's car left the road and crashed into two parked cars.

He was taken to Wexford General Hospital but died in the afternoon. No one else was injured in the incident.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/three-hospitalise...

Three hospitalised after gas explosion

Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 09:41 AM

Three people remain in hospital after a gas explosion at a house in Co Kildare overnight.

It happened in a housing estate in Leixlip as Bord Gais staff were trying to deal with a suspected gas leak at a house next door.

At around 8.30pm last night, Bord Gais were called to the scene of a suspected gas leak at a house in Riverdale Court in Leixlip.

They inspected the house and called in a larger crew to carry out further investigations.

The company said that at around 12.30am this morning there was an explosion at the house next door while its workers were still on site, having made the leak safe.

Three people were injured and taken to hospital and a further three houses were evacuated.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

I don't remember posting this around Dec 6, 2011 and got this alert today so maybe it was a hush hush incident until now.

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming-natural-gas-compres...

The Falcon natural gas compressor station south of Pinedale burns and then explodes into a column of flame midday Dec. 6, in this submitted video. Nobody was directly injured in the fire and explosion, which was triggered by venting natural gas at the station, which is part of a system to collect natural gas from the Jonah and Pinedale Anticline fields. The fire was allowed to burn out, under the watchful eyes of area firefighters.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/Small-explosion-at-David...

Small explosion at David Douglas HS sends 12 to hospital

Twelve people were taken to area hospitals following a small explosion in a science classroom of David Douglas High School in Southeast Portland Friday morning.

The explosion occurred before 10:45 a.m. According to Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R), a teacher was working with a sodium-based metal in a sink when someone turned on water. There was an explosion, followed by the release of gas. A hazmat crew responded to the scene.

Eight people were transported to the hospital as a precautionary measure after complaining of headaches. Four people, including one teacher, were taken to the hospital with respiratory problems.

Dan McCue, communications director for the David Douglas School District, says that 12 classrooms in the science wing were evacuated, but the rest of the school remained open.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/jan/11/gas-leak-closes-portion-...

Gas leak temporarily closes portion of Fifth Avenue South

• Posted January 11, 2012 at 8:06 p.m.

NAPLES — A natural gas leak in downtown Naples temporarily shut down a portion of Fifth Avenue South on Wednesday night and caused several businesses to close early.

The leak is believed to have been caused by workers installing fiber optic cable near the intersection of Fourth Avenue South and Eighth Street South, Naples Fire Chief Steve McInerny said. Fire officials were called to the scene around 6:40 p.m., he said.

“Anytime you have a natural gas leak or any kind of gas leak and your humidity is dropping, you have the potential for a flash fire or an explosion,” McInerny said. “That’s the worst case scenario. This is a major leak in a critical service area.”

Firefighters secured a three-block radius around the leak. There is a 2-inch gas line and a 4-inch line running parallel to one another where the break occurred. It was not immediately clear which line was broken or if both were, McInerny said.

Officials from TECO People’s Gas were called to the scene to turn off the gas and begin repairing the damage to the gas lines.

“They’re hoping to get the gas on by morning, but there are no promises,” McInerny said. “This couldn’t have come at a worse time. At 6:40 p.m. it’s the height of the evening crowd for business.”

The gas leak cut out service to gas-fed dryers, ovens and water heaters. Several businesses and restaurants were forced to shut their doors early and turn away customers when they ran out of gas. Others managed to get by serving only cold food.

Customers reported seeing fire trucks driving back and forth along Fifth Avenue South and police cars staged on both ends of the road.

“When we came to have dinner here and drove into the parking garage, I told my wife it smelled like gas,” said Jerry Vasquez of Naples, a customer at the Mangrove Cafe. “That’s when I saw two fire trucks drive by.”

Ken Clairmont, a server at Rossopomodoro, called 911 after he smelled gas.

“Within 15 minutes the whole street was closed off,” he said. “People were saying they smelled it as early as 5:30 and I have to ask myself, it smells like gas and nobody called the fire department?”

This is not the first time a gas leak has affected business in downtown Naples.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

Father, daughter hurt in house explosion

Man burned, rural Harrisburg home destroyed

http://www.argusleader.com/article/20120110/NEWS/301100016/Father-d...

Harrisburg firefighters Pat Lokken is framed between debris as he sprays down hot spots with the help of Andy Smitt and Jayme Adrian on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 47322 Austin Court in south Sioux Falls, S.D.

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A 49-year-old man and his 21-year-old daughter were injured Monday afternoon in a home explosion about five miles northwest of Harrisburg.

The man suffered severe burns, and was driven by his daughter to a local hospital before being airlifted to a Minneapolis burn center, said Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Harold Timmerman. He did not release the victims’ names. He said the woman was being treated at a Sioux Falls hospital, but her condition was unknown.

Timmerman said the explosion happened a little before 3 p.m. in the basement of the home at 47322 Austin Court, in a cul-de-sac off of Western Avenue and south of 271st Avenue in Lincoln County. The home burned to the ground.

It was home to a family of five, but only the father and middle daughter were home at the time the explosion occurred, Timmerman said.

The cause of the explosion is unknown, but it could have been started by propane, Timmerman said. The state fire marshal’s office will investigate today.

Timmerman said a neighbor heard the explosion and called 911. Fire departments from Tea, Harrisburg and Sioux Falls responded.

By 7 p.m., about a dozen Harrisburg volunteer firefighters still were on scene, and all that remained of the ranch-style home and attached double garage was a portion of the front porch. The area still was smoldering and steaming. Harrisburg Fire Chief Bill Fink said crews were working to maintain the hot spots caused by the roof falling down into the debris.

He said Sioux Falls Fire Rescue was the first to respond to the call. By the time they arrived within five to 10 mi