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Allentown, Pa., Explosion [VIDEO]

An apparent gas explosion forced hundreds of people to evacuate homes in Allentown, Pa., Wednesday night. The Morning Call reports that three deaths have been confirmed by authorities. However, residents say two more people, including a 4-month-old infant, were killed in the blast. Allentown fire officials say the...

Coroner: Pa. Natural Gas Explosion Kills 5 People

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A natural gas explosion rocked a downtown neighborhood overnight, killing five people, leveling two houses and spawning fires that burned for hours through an entire row of neighboring homes. Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim said Thursday that all but one body had been recovered from the debris. The...

Philly Gas Explosion Kills 1, Injures 5

A natural gas explosion in Philadelphia that sent a fireball 50 feet high and shook a neighborhood killed a utility worker and injured five people, three critically. "Oh man! It just blew up the whole street," Jim Campoli, 61, told The Philadelphia Inquirer. Campoli was evacuated from his apartment in the Tacony...

Residents Return Home After Calif. Gas Explosion

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (Sept. 13) -- Patrick Yu has had nightmares and headaches since a fireball from a natural gas explosion caused his ceiling to crash down next to him while he slept. He was one of many residents who returned to the ruined hillsides of their suburban San Francisco neighborhood Sunday after Thursday's...

San Bruno Gas Explosion Survivors Tell of Horror

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (Sept. 10) -- Still reeling from the massive gas explosion that took the lives of at least four of their neighbors Thursday, injured more than 50 and destroyed dozens of homes in the raging fire that followed, the community of San Bruno today seemed in a state of shock. Survivors of the gas main blast...

Background on gas explosion

A gas explosion is an explosion resulting from a gas leak in the presence of an ignition source. The principal explosive gases are natural gas, methane, propane and butane, because they are widely used for heating purposes.

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