TheRepublic.com - Explosions News

Fire Marshal's Office: Panel had blast site access

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:17:48 -0400

AUSTIN, Texas - The State Fire Marshal's Office says a federal safety panel's investigators had access to the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others.

Car explodes in Vancouver, British Columbia

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:11:07 -0400

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A leaking acetylene tank is blamed for a blast early Wednesday that tore apart a car parked on a street in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Man injured in explosion at New Castle home

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:34:28 -0400

NEW CASTLE, Delaware - An explosion that left a New Castle man critically injured Tuesday appeared to involve an old military mortar round, and several other mortar rounds were recovered after the incident, authorities said.

House leveled, Wis. family making their way home

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:24:02 -0400

ALTOONA, Wisconsin - Members of northwestern Wisconsin's Pederson family have found a silver lining in the explosion that destroyed their house: They were far from home at the time of the devastating blast last Sunday.

Help could be available for uninsured West losses

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:50:28 -0400

WEST, Texas - Disaster help may be available for losses not covered by insurance in a Central Texas town recovering from a fertilizer plant explosion.

Classes to resume after blasts at Bakersfield High

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:37:19 -0400

BAKERSFIELD, California - The principal of Bakersfield High School says classes will resume on schedule Tuesday after the school was placed on lockdown and classes were cancelled after three small explosions on the school's campus Monday.

Natural gas leak causes NY house explosion

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:45:19 -0400

WESTFIELD, New York - Investigators say an explosion that destroyed a house in western New York was caused by a natural gas leak.

Ohio home leveled by explosion

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:05:05 -0400

SCIO, Ohio - Authorities say a house in a small eastern Ohio village was leveled by a large explosion while the family that lived there was at church.

Man's body found after north Fla. home explodes

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:02:12 -0400

YULEE, Florida - The body of a man was found following an explosion inside a north Florida mobile home.

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:35:15 -0400

ZAGREB, Croatia - Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.

Blasts rock Libya's capital and eastern city

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:32:44 -0400

TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported.

Welder dead in fire, explosion at Vegas auto shop

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:11:05 -0400

LAS VEGAS - One worker is dead after an explosion and fire at a truck repair business just outside of Nellis Air Force Base.

Official: 10 killed in explosion in Turkey

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:46:52 -0400

ANKARA, Turkey - Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people.

Permit needed to tear down structures in West

Fri, 17 May 2013 07:38:04 -0400

WEST, Texas - People in a Central Texas town whose homes or businesses were destroyed in a deadly fertilizer plant explosion need a permit to tear down the structures.

Officials investigate fire at Pa. gas compressor

Thu, 16 May 2013 07:38:07 -0400

NEW MILFORD, Pennsylvania - Investigators are looking into what caused a fire and possible explosion at a gas compressor station in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Ex-EMT in Texas pleads not guilty to charges

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:08:47 -0400

WACO, Texas - A first responder who helped evacuate people ahead of a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a charge he possessed bomb-making materials.

Butte man injured in explosion

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:44:38 -0400

BUTTE, Montana - A Butte man suffered burns in an explosion that blew the windows out of his house.

S. Ind. fertilizer plant operator defends safety

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:02:13 -0400

ROCKPORT, Indiana - The developer of a proposed southern Indiana fertilizer plant said Wednesday the project will be safe and not handle explosive materials like a Texas plant where a deadly explosion occurred last month.

Texas firefighters focused concern on toxic gases

Wed, 15 May 2013 07:35:42 -0400

WEST, Texas - When they saw 30-foot flames licking the sky inside a massive fertilizer plant, firefighters in this tiny Texas town rushed to evacuate nearby buildings and raced to spray water on tanks of chemicals, hoping to prevent a catastrophe.

Texas plant explosion findings to be released

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:21:24 -0400

WEST, Texas - State and federal agents will release this week the findings of an investigation into a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant.

Texas plant explosion findings to be released

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:40:38 -0400

WEST, Texas - State and federal agents will release this week the findings of an investigation into a deadly explosion at a Central Texas fertilizer plant.

Nelson gives more than $120K for explosion relief

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:07:13 -0400

WEST, Texas - Country star Willie Nelson has donated more than $120,000 for relief efforts following a deadly fertilizer plant explosion near his Central Texas hometown.

Murder charge dropped in S. Ind. meth blast death

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:07:29 -0400

VERNON, Indiana - A prosecutor has dropped murder charges in the death of a southern Indiana man following an explosion authorities say happened when he and another man were making methamphetamine.

2 hurt in explosions, fire at W.Va. gas plant

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:20:31 -0400

POCA, West Virginia - Two workers were injured Monday when highly flammable gas used in welding exploded at a West Virginia industrial site, officials said.

2 injured in W.Va. gas plant explosions, fire

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:12:41 -0400

POCA, West Virginia - Two workers are being treated for minor injuries after explosions and a fire at an industrial site in Putnam County.