Posted on 08/10/2020 7:58:51 AM PDT by rdl6989
Fox Baltimore reports that medical units have been called to the scene and Baltimore County firefighters have been called to help.
“Several houses exploded. At least 5 people trapped, some children.
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Media/Dems covering for Antifa/BLM not ruled out, but poorly maintained or jerry-rigged gas lines certainly a good possibility in Baltimordor.
Baltimore CBS local live stream
https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2020/08/10/explosion-rocks-northwest-baltimore-latest/
...Gas explosion per local news.
Yup, acetone vapors
More ANFO ?
Looks like a gas leak to me. The houses were atomized from a distributed explosion. The gas/oxygen mixture fills every room of every house and it all detonates at once. If there were a single point of detonation the debris field wouldn’t look like an airplane crash.
Mitsubishi and several other players are frantically building factories and sourcing materials and skilled labor to keep up with what is expected to be catastrophic failures and the needed replacements.
Amen.
Prayers up.
That’s about a mile or two away from me. My whole apartment shuddered at about the time of the explosion. At the time, I thought it was my upstairs neighbor having dropped some large free weights, but now I believe it was the explosion which caused the entire building to shake, like a bomb had hit. Ugh, scary. It’s usually so very peaceful here.
God help them.
Looks like a bunch of broken windows, in the homes surrounding the blast area, in pic after your post.
:-(
Prayers.
Yes, prayers especially for the innocents!
Buildings on the entire block have damage. Windows blown out, bricks loosened, etc.
If it was a gas explosion something would be burning.... until they got the gas off.
It's a good idea to use a cigarette lighter once a month, turn it on and closely follow all your exposed pipes and where they enter your building. When the flame suddenly gets bigger and brighter, you have leaking gas. My brother in law is a plumber. That's how he does it. Taught me the same.
The buildings don’t look like houses. Are they apartment buildings?
Interesting. How close do you hold the lighter?
If it was all in the basements they might not have smelled the methyl mercaptan unless somebody went down there.
Gas leaks are very frightening. Gas fumes can accumulate anywhere and one little spark and...
Right on the pipes, attention to joints and entry points thru the walls especially. When the flame grows in size, bingo. Gas leak. Of course do not do this if there is a strong gas odor. That’s self explanatory of course. But if you have that occasional Whiff and can’t nail it down, that’s how you find it. Then you know where to do the soapy water bubbles check. You would be amazed at how much gas is leaking from fittings.
They are old row houses, the same as townhouses.
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