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Crews searching for victims after explosion at Minneapolis school
WTAE ^ | 8/2/2017

Posted on 08/02/2017 10:33:13 AM PDT by Gamecock

wo people are unaccounted for and five were hospitalized Wednesday after an explosion believed to be caused by a gas leak leveled part of a Minnesota school building, emergency authorities said.

Minneapolis Fire crews are "extinguishing fire, searching for victims and extricating" at Minnehaha Academy, a pre-K to 12th grade Christian school in the city. All of the injured people are adults, with one in critical condition.

The fire department originally tweeted a fatality has been reported, but around 15 minutes later said it has not been confirmed. Later details said two people were missing and one they were searching for was found uninjured.


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1 posted on 08/02/2017 10:33:13 AM PDT by Gamecock
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2 posted on 08/02/2017 10:34:12 AM PDT by Gamecock ("We always choose according to our greatest inclination at the moment." R.C. Sproul)
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Chemistry was my favorite class. Must have been the risk factor.


3 posted on 08/02/2017 10:35:32 AM PDT by robroys woman
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It is a Christian School in Minnesota. They had better be sure it was just a gas leak.........


4 posted on 08/02/2017 10:38:41 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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A gas leak and nobody smelled anything?

The mercaptan they put in natural gas has an odor all its own and cannot be mistaken for anything else and it does not take much to notice it.

I suppose a gas leak is a better theory than a trial run for a terror attack.


5 posted on 08/02/2017 10:39:27 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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GMTA


6 posted on 08/02/2017 10:39:54 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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E=MC2

Explosion equals Muslim Clowns squared...


7 posted on 08/02/2017 10:45:01 AM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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“Chemistry was my favorite class.”

Someone in our HS class ran a tube from the gas jet into a sink full of water and turned on the gas. Of course it bubbled up then he stuck a lit match over the water. I guess he thought the water would clean the gas.


8 posted on 08/02/2017 10:48:32 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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Did he recover?


9 posted on 08/02/2017 10:50:05 AM PDT by robroys woman
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PING


10 posted on 08/02/2017 10:51:35 AM PDT by MagUSNRET
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Chemistry was my favorite class. Must have been the risk factor.


11 posted on 08/02/2017 10:51:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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“It is a Christian School in Minnesota. They had better be sure it was just a gas leak.........”

Precisely what I was thinking. I wonder if they have surveillance cameras?


12 posted on 08/02/2017 10:55:37 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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Crews searching for victims after explosion at Minneapolis school

They better investigate this to the full extent of the law.

13 posted on 08/02/2017 11:13:51 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (God Bless Texas...)
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Read This...

http://kstp.com/news/permit-gas-piping-meter-hookups-minnehaha-academy/4561630/?cat=1


14 posted on 08/02/2017 11:14:15 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: metmom

As a gas man for 40 years, I can confirm that an underground leak may not smell of odorant, especially if it travels through wet soil or a fair amount of concrete. Also, odor-fade can occur in long runs of plastic piping.


15 posted on 08/02/2017 11:37:28 AM PDT by cartoonistx
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“Did he recover?”

He didn’t get burned, he had his hand on the gas lever and the hose and turned it off quick.

It was interesting, because they formed god sized bubbles that would break the surface then ignite and then ignite the subsequent bubbles. It stirred up the water quite a bit.


16 posted on 08/02/2017 11:49:32 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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The people of Minnesota are getting what they asked for.


17 posted on 08/02/2017 12:02:11 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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See my post #14


18 posted on 08/02/2017 12:08:24 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Gamecock
Maybe American Leftists will wake up when a repeat of the Beslan tragedy happens in the U.S.A...
...No...
They are irretrievably trapped in their delusions, hopelessly psychotic.

When such a horrifying tragedy does occur, they will see it only through the murk of their delusions.

They'll blame it on "global warming" or "Hillary's defeat" or some such nonsense, but they will never be able to grasp the truth--mainly because they have only contempt for TRUTH. That is the fundamental evil beneath their delusions.

19 posted on 08/02/2017 12:09:23 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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Thank goodness! I had heard that it was a weather balloon.


20 posted on 08/02/2017 12:15:39 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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