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Two dead, several missing and 34 injured after an explosion ... in a Washington DC suburb [trunc]
DailyMail.co.uk ^ | 11 August 2016 | Liam Quinn and Sarah Dean

Posted on 08/11/2016 9:19:10 AM PDT by Rockitz

Two people have been killed and more remain missing after a large explosion ripped through an apartment building in a Maryland suburb of Washington.

At least 34 people, including three firefighters, have been injured. Residents are reported to have suffered burns from the blaze and fractures from jumping out of windows.

Montgomery County Police Assistant Chief Russ Hamill announced two people were killed in the blast in Silver Spring during a media conference on Thursday morning.

The explosion was also declared a 'mass casualty incident', and added the building is still in 'extremely dangerous condition'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: explosion; gasexplosion; maryland; silverspring
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Meth lab go boom?
1 posted on 08/11/2016 9:19:10 AM PDT by Rockitz
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Full title > 100 characters...

Two dead, several missing and 34 injured after an explosion ripped through an apartment block in a Washington DC suburb - forcing residents to leap from their windows as it set off huge blaze


2 posted on 08/11/2016 9:20:00 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Rockitz

Probably a gas leak.


3 posted on 08/11/2016 9:20:12 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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Washington D.C.?

I’m going with Meth Lab...


4 posted on 08/11/2016 9:21:43 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Live Free or Die: We thought it was a neat old slogan from our past. We'd better think again.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Most likely. After all, there is NO terror threat in the U.S. Whatever a terrorist is.


5 posted on 08/11/2016 9:22:20 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Rockitz

Didn’t Bill Ayer’s Weather Underground accidentally blow up a townhouse in Greenwich Village?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village_townhouse_explosion


6 posted on 08/11/2016 9:22:40 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Montgomery County Police Assistant Chief Russ Hamill announced two people were killed in the blast in Silver Spring during a media conference

I didn't know media conferences could be so dangerous.
7 posted on 08/11/2016 9:24:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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There you see; the media is not only biased but actually explosive.


9 posted on 08/11/2016 9:25:12 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Rockitz

Three possibilities:

1) Gas leak
2) Meth lab blows up (as you indicate)
3) Or, depending on the occupants, homemade bomb factory goes kaboom

While options 1 and 2 are more likely, you can’t rule out #3, either.


10 posted on 08/11/2016 9:25:30 AM PDT by ExNewsExSpook
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The explosion was also declared a 'mass casualty incident', and added the building is still in 'extremely dangerous condition'. Really? /s
11 posted on 08/11/2016 9:25:55 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Don't argue with a Liberal. Ask him simple questions and listen to him stutter)
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Two people have been killed and more remain missing

Any DNC staffers in that list?

12 posted on 08/11/2016 9:28:03 AM PDT by floozy22 (Paul RINO Ryan 2016: "In the bag for The Hag")
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Spent a little time in the Maryland area in the past and if I remember correctly, that area has a high Hispanic population. I’ll go with gas leak.


13 posted on 08/11/2016 9:28:32 AM PDT by Hatteras
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I live close to the area. Low income housing. Mostly Hispanic. Mostly illegal.


14 posted on 08/11/2016 9:32:29 AM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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I see what you did there. Lol.


15 posted on 08/11/2016 9:33:05 AM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: ExNewsExSpook; All

Is Bill Ayers in town?

His Weathermen group blew up a building while constructing a bomb.


16 posted on 08/11/2016 9:33:16 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: ExNewsExSpook

If it turns out to be #3, then there will be weeks of discussion about “motives” and whether or when the occupants were “radicalized”.


17 posted on 08/11/2016 9:35:06 AM PDT by NEMDF
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“Work accident”


18 posted on 08/11/2016 9:36:15 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I'm not a smug know-it-all; I just want you to experience epistemological closure.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Correct. People forget if natural gas leaks and explodes in a confined space, it explodes like a fuel-air bomb—not much will be left, we’ve seen several times over the years in New York City whenever a gas leak causes an apartment building explosion.


19 posted on 08/11/2016 9:36:58 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Rockitz

Butane accident from someone making wax?


20 posted on 08/11/2016 9:40:42 AM PDT by DBrow
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