Gang task force members in Hemet are lucky to alive Thursday after they noticed their office was flooded with natural gas in an apparently deliberate attempt to cause a deadly explosion, police said. "It was basically designed so that once somebody came in and moved around a little bit, it would have gone off," said Hemet police Lt. Duane Wisehart. "At the very least, it would have leveled the building and killed whoever was inside." I don't get it, you walk in and smell gas, you turn off the gas, what does it mean "It was basically designed so that once somebody came in and moved around a little bit, it would have gone off,"?
Once I went with a friend to evict a tenant, no one answered the door but I thought that I smelled gas, so I told my friend, "let's go back downstairs and turn it off at the meter, fetch a ladder and go through a window (in case the door was rigged)", it just wasn't a big deal.
You're dealing with a lot of variables. A few weeks ago in Knoxville a house blew up due to gas. I mean as in nothing left gone. No real warning and two of the residents were asleep and were blown out of the house and survived. Their son who likely must have been the unfortunate one to trigger the spark when he came home didn't make it out alive.
Gas can concentrate in lower areas like basements, air ducts, etc, and blow a structure sky high with nary a sniff of foul odor noticed.