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Huge explosion DESTROYS office building in Maryland shopping center
The Daily Mail (UK) ^
| August 26, 2019
| Chauncey Alcorn
Posted on 08/26/2019 1:26:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Workers at a Maryland office space are lucky to be alive after narrowly escaping a powerful gas explosion that authorities said 'totaled' the building.
The incident started just before 7am on Sunday when someone pulled the fire alarm at the Lakewood Office Building and shopping center in Columbia Maryland, a town located about 19 miles southwest of Baltimore, authorities said.
Howard County Fire and Rescue emergency crews responded to the scene where fire fighters found gas hissing out of a crater in the parking lot.
They made sure the shopping center was completely evacuated just before the office exploded around 8am. The blast collapsed the front of the office and the surrounding building spaces.
Howard County Fire and Rescue Services Battalion Chief Stephen Hardesty said there weren't many people around when the explosion occurred and everyone was lucky it didn't happen during regular business hours.
'If it had been a normal workday, the evacuation and the clearing of the area would have been a little bit harder and we definitely would have had a different circumstance,' Hardesty told reporters during a noon press conference. 'We were about a thousand feet away. We backed everybody out, secured everybody away, got everybody away from it.'
Flames could be seen burning in the parking lot after the explosion.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: columbia; explosion; gasexplosion; gasleak; localnews; maryland; officebuilding
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Full title (since Brit tabloids are apparently fans of run-on titles):
Huge explosion DESTROYS office building in Maryland shopping center - just minutes after emergency services had evacuated the area
To: 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:26:44 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
7 AM on a Sunday. Wow. It’s a good thing it happened at a time where no one was in the building. //sarc
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:40:49 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:41:17 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: All
List of businesses formerly located there ...
Clinton Foundation Accounting Services
Obama Personal Records Vault
Friends of Jeff Epstein Inc
Russian Collusion Activity Center
Antifa Watch
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:41:37 PM PDT
by
Peter ODonnell
(Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They serve pickles and boiled eggs for lunch?
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:41:41 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They serve pickles and boiled eggs for lunch?
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:41:56 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The worst part is we have to get this news thru the Daily Mail.
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08/26/2019 1:43:18 PM PDT
by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:43:36 PM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Be strong & prosper, be weak & die! Stay true.... ~~ Donald J. Trump)
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:44:02 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(“They are openly planning to murder you. Prep if you want to live.”)
To: Delta 21
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:44:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ll bet that made the rats scurry...
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posted on
08/26/2019 1:59:44 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
[Full title (since Brit tabloids are apparently fans of run-on titles): ]
The internet edition of the Daily Mail is more loosely edited than the paper version. And the paper version makes the New York Post (of “Headless body in topless bar” fame) seem upmarket.
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08/26/2019 2:04:22 PM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Now you’re cooking with gas!
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08/26/2019 2:04:23 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: dfwgator
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posted on
08/26/2019 2:07:21 PM PDT
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TomServo
To: SolidRedState
They had it on local news channels, also, as well as (presumably) the Baltimore Hon. I was simply referred to the UK link by somebody else, so I ran with that.
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posted on
08/26/2019 2:11:45 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
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posted on
08/26/2019 2:12:21 PM PDT
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seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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posted on
08/26/2019 2:17:28 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Show me the people who own the land, the guns and the money, and I'll show you the people in charge.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Maybe Maryland should devote some funds to their infrastructure instead of fighting the fake climate change scam, gun control, abortion rights, etc.
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