09-13-2018, 10:04 PM | #1 | ||
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Location: Seven miles up
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Gas Explosions Set Neighborhoods on Fire
They're up to 40 homes in 3 different neighborhoods now. I'm not sure what the backstory is, or what caused it, but I can't imagine the chaos and horror that must be going through these neighborhoods tonight. I do worry about that gas line that comes in the house. It's a sad story.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-m...-idUSKCN1LT3E5
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09-13-2018, 10:12 PM | #2 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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Now 75 structures on fire (or were at one time), everyone across 3 cities who used a particular gas company were evacuated.
One of the city's fire chiefs said that the city wasn't able to get a hold of the gas company until 4 hours after the fires started. The company had notified customers that work was starting today to replace a bunch of gas lines. And I was reading about one officer whose house burned down while he was on patrol. The local fire crews were so overwhelmed that nobody could respond in time (probably a bunch of houses in that situation). Last edited by molson : 09-13-2018 at 10:14 PM. |
09-13-2018, 10:21 PM | #3 |
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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FBI apparently getting involved.
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09-13-2018, 11:30 PM | #4 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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Sounds like overpressurized gas lines. They were working on them earlier and I'm guessing someone or something fucked up.
An 18 year old has died unfortunately. |
09-13-2018, 11:41 PM | #5 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Concord, MA/UMass
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Damn, that's terrifying. It's a little over 30 minutes from where I grew up & my parents live, and we still play 2/3 towns in lacrosse (the Andovers... it's definitely an odd area where a white collar town (Andover) meets a blue collar town (North Andover) meets a town that's half hard working immigrants and half ghetto (Lawrence).
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09-14-2018, 04:15 PM | #6 |
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Somewhere More Familiar
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As someone who works for his local utility and specializes in gas emergency response, it is unfathomable to me that it could have taken 4 hours for someone to get in touch with a company representative. If this isn't a reporting error or a poorly-worded effort to say it took that long to get an official statement, that is terrifying.
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10-11-2018, 10:56 PM | #7 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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This is what happens when a gas company chooses cheap contractors over skilled labor. Don't cheap out when it comes to stuff like this.
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10-11-2018, 10:59 PM | #8 |
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Chicago, IL
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And for those who don't know, the gas company locked out the union workers and hired this hack company instead. They also almost blew up another neighborhood the other day.
Cross your fingers if you're in the Boston area.
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