Posted on 11/20/2024 7:43:15 AM PST by Red Badger
WATCH: Video shows the moment a home exploded this morning in Tate Township, Ohio, killing 2 people
A neighbor told local news outlet WCPO that a man with his hair on fire came running from the house after the blast and told him he'd been working on the home's furnace when "all of a sudden it popped and exploded."
An investigation is underway.
0:15 VIDEO AT LINK..............
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Oops!
Obviously mis-diagnostic the problem.
God is good: he lived to tell the story.
Whew!!!
People didn't die in the movie.
"I hit the gas line Art RUN!"
I used to use a lighter sometimes for checking gas leaks, if you know what you are doing it is OK, you don’t use it to look for collected gas, you use it to check well ventilated exposed joints.
Darwin award.
Well 2 people died so there’s that...
I saw this happen once. I was in a dry cleaners with a huge plate glass window when there was a heavy pulse from a nearby explosion. I remember the window moving in and out almost an inch, vibrating like the string on a giant bass. When I went outside, there was bits of insulation fluttering down just like in the video, while the townhouse and all its contents were no more than a pile of disordered bricks. Oddly, I saw a lot of people moving in opposite directions, some feeing the area, while others were moving toward the site. At the same time, I saw a bunch of gas company workers with yellow helmets in a trench near the demolished house looking very sheepish.
Two dead? O.M.G, Sad.
Soapy water is much safer.
No it isn’t, those of us who work with gas, repair and install gas lines have always used that convenience for quick spot checks.
Sometimes you just need to do some quick check without going for soapy water or doing a final check.
Here is an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPHX41j_tfA
And that is exactly why I have lived in an all-electric home since 1975!
Then, in 2008 I was inside my motorhome with my wife and 2 grandchildren. There was a propane leak and it exploded shortly after we turned on the stove burner! Thank God, we all lived.
Since then, my motorhomes are all electric.
There is a reason that there is no propane on boats…
propane explosion - Google Search
I don’t trust gas.
oopsie!!, Before long there should be some stupid taking a torch to the new propane refrigerators and blow some crap up.
Ya think?
Propane is heavy and collects, it puddles, which makes it dangerous, natural gas is light and wants to escape to the atmosphere which makes it harder to collect in dangerous amounts, but of course it can happen in modern tightly built homes and in some circumstances, but you can smell it when you enter a house.
The survivor was the HVAC guy that was examining a problem.
I guess he didn’t fix it.
Things go “boink”.
Trust no “expert” opinions from installers, and check when installers do installs: do your own tests.
I’ve restored four ancient homes in 45 years, and have found errors among the “experts”, a few times. Not necessarily fatal errors: but I never put the protection of my family and self and investments to employees of gas companies, and their crews, without my own approving.
No flame allowed!
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Contractors have screwed me a few times
My wife not kids, would not know what that’smell’ could be.
no flame so it wasnt gas...
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