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

[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'.

[Mr. Douglas]

Gets me to thinking... Just as the discovery of the atom led to both nuclear power and the nuclear bomb, I’m wondering if some could literally produce portable “meth labs” that were actually highly powerful and incendiary bombs. i.e. create the portable meth lab with the express purpose for it to blow up, rather than actually produce drugs.

[RummyChick]

Kevin Lewis Retweeted Pete Piringer ‏@mcfrsPIO 5h5 hours ago ATF & MCFRS Fire & Explosive Investigators have a large debris field to search & document, some items >300 away

[golas1964]

Someone dropped a Chalupa? XD

[Mr. Douglas]

Took me a while. :-)

[rey]

I like the Starsky and Hutch car in the pictures.

[RummyChick]

[IamConservative]

Must have been gas.

There was home in my neck of the woods that the owner blew up to collect insurance money. They opened the gas line to the fireplace and used the microwave timer for a trigger. Turned that house into toothpicks, leveled about half a block and killed some people. The home was a two story McMansion, so there was a large amount of gas and what must have been an optimum amount of oxygen.

[Heart of Georgia]

My first thoughts were your #2 and #3. Another possibility, oxygen in use and person using open flame.

[uncitizen]

moslems?

[RummyChick]

family of missing man

[RummyChick]

WMAL News Verified account ‏@wmalnews 1h1 hour ago MoCo executive says first responders were called to Piney Branch Rd July 25 to investigate smell of gas

[dfwgator]

I’ve seen the remains of houses that had a gas explosion, there was very little left, other than a slab.

[Gasshog]

Hispanic

Gas

FREEHOELEES

[RummyChick]

I was visiting someone when there was a gas explosion at house many many miles away. The house sort of shook, heard the explosion, thought it was a plane crashing. Sounded like it was close even though later we found it was miles away. All the neighbors came out and started looking around the streets and wondered if there was a terrorist attack with planes in the air

[HollyB]

Oh how I remember carbon copies. Ugghh. Then graduating to those IBM’s that had a memory and a screen that held about five words Lol. But, I remember the embarrassment I would feel if a document was sent back because of an error. We took pride in our perfection. Don’t they care anymore?

[HollyB]

I can’t even imagine working on legal documents during that time. It was hard enough with standard office documents. That must have been intense. You certainly remember the expectation and pride of getting it right the first time.

[ExTxMarine]

While in the Marine Corps, I typed Top Secret messages, in a locked closet on a typewriter. You only got issued ONE MESSAGE SHEET per message. You had to change the ribbon for each message.

In other words, DO NOT MESS UP, because you had to remove the ribbon, remove the message sheet, lock it in a briefcase, leave the closet, take those to the shredder room, then go get a NEW sheet, a NEW ribbon, and start ALL OVER!

Talk about embarrassing! You become a very careful typist - QUICKLY! Life SUCKED when I first took that job! I did realize that those "easy A" typing and keyboarding classes which I had in High School, would have better served me...had I actually paid attention!!

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

South of Indy.... if so hiya neighbor.

[Arthur McGowan]

Journalists have no clue how to construct a sentence, and I see the comma shortage continues unabated.

[Arthur McGowan]

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

What else did the explosion say?