One worker is dead and another is seriously injured after an explosion and fire at New England Used Auto Parts, a Bronx junkyard, on September 4, 2019. The injured worker, who recently became a father, has been placed in an induced coma after sustaining serious injuries in the blast which occurred around 3:10 in the […]
Officials believe that medical oxygen tanks may have played a role in a house explosion in Southgate, MI that left one woman dead. A series of blasts, which occurred just before 10 a.m. this morning, destroyed the home located in the 13400 block of Cunningham St. and damaged neighboring homes. Neighbors told the Detroit […]
Three people were seriously injured in an August 14 explosion at T.A.C. East, an industrial cleaning facility in East Chicago, IN. All three are being treated in the burn unit at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL and are said to be in stable condition. Fire Chief Anthony Serna told local media that crews […]
A man in Cass County, MN was seriously injured in a house explosion involving a propane furnace today. The injured man was the only one inside the home, located about an hour north of Brainerd in the small community of Remer. He was doing work on the furnace when it exploded. Emergency responders airlifted him […]
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has ordered Enbridge to take corrective actions after a pipeline it operates exploded near Danville, KY on August 1, killing one person and seriously injuring five others. The explosion, the third on this pipeline since 2016, is the latest in a series of tragic episodes in the […]
A report by Florida’s Bureau of Fire, Arson, and Explosives Investigations says the source of an explosion that injured 23 people at a Plantation, FL shopping mall last month was gas from a line that was opened earlier that morning. Gas filled the space formerly occupied by PizzaFire restaurant, which went out of business several […]
The Durham Fire Department has issued a report on its investigation of an explosion at Kaffeinate coffee shop at 115 North Duke Street on April 10, 2019 that killed two people and injured 25 others. Fire department investigators spent three months analyzing videos, 911 calls and interviews from more than 25 people to compile the […]
Authorities have identified Mark Steven Zielke, 64 as the man who was killed in a house explosion in Manawa, WI on August 11. Emergency responders say they believe Zielke was asleep when the blast occurred around 8:45 a.m. leveling the home located near the intersection of County Highway N. and County Road T in Waupaca […]
Alexis Haaland, a Navy wife and mother of two, survived a gas explosion that completely destroyed her home and killed a gas technician Wade Kilpatrick, 31. But days later she is still shaken, she told ABC 10 News. A family friend has created a GoFundMe page for the Haalands, who relocated to the San Diego […]
One person was killed and 15 others were injured in a house explosion in Murrieta, CA today. Firefighters and a crew from Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) were called to the scene in the 23500 block of Wooden Horse Trail shortly before 11 a.m. after a contractor working on the home knicked a gas line. […]
A house explosion in Charlotte, North Carolina’s Ballantyne neighborhood has left one person dead and another badly injured. Rania Karam was killed in the blast which occurred around 2 p.m. on July 2. Her husband, Dr. Jabran Karam, was badly injured. He was airlifted from the scene to a nearby hospital. Dr. Karam told […]