Post by pooka on Aug 16, 2022 1:17:13 GMT -5
A house near where I grew up blew up last Monday afternoon. They still haven't made a determination of the cause yet, but I fear it was a natural gas leak. Three people were killed. The couple who lived there, & one neighbor. It said the couple had just recently bought the house. I'm thinking something went awry with the furnace, water heater or stove. Maybe a loose gas line somewhere in the home. The news didn't say how long since they bought the place & moved in & turned the utilities on. Maybe there was a slow leak that took some time before it found a spark to set it off. ATF is still investigating. It was blown to splinters, & damaged thirty nine nearby homes. I think they said fourteen or fifteen houses are uninhabitable. It was caught by a Ring doorbell camera across the street. Then a day or so later they released footage from a security camera on a business down the street. Not that it helped, but the fire station was just a few hundred feet away, so they got there in about thirty seconds.
Here's some video of it as it happened.
This is a reminder to always be double sure to play it safe with natural gas or LP gas. After you see the video & see there's nothing left of this house but a hole in the ground & a pile if kindling. Gas is great to cook & heat with, but if handled wrong will make for a quick trip to the hereafter. They released preliminary cause of death for the three. The couple was blunt force trauma to the chest, so the wallop of the blast more or less. The neighbor lady died from compression asphyxia.. More or less, a heavy weight landed on her squeezing her so that she couldn't breath.
Again, this is one of those warnings we get now & then about the many toys that make our life easier. Every now & then, something will go amiss, & if we're lucky, we'll survive, unlike the three in this case. Another sad story in the news.
P.S.
I just re-read the story, & it was the neighbor who had just bought her house, so I can't blame it on a careless new home owner.