So much for being allowed to use Natural Gas in New Jersey.
Show us the video. More than likely it was a gas leak.
Home Explodes on Tranquility Court
You can’t make this stuff up!!
Probably and seems to me with our lives being saturated with computer controlled devices they should be able to come up with a gas line monitor that detects when there is unusual gas usage and sets off an alarm and shuts down the gas until situation is resolved.
They should know better than to have stuffed cabbage for lunch on burrito night
We had that happen to a home in a town I used to live in. It was due to a faulty furnace a local contractor had supplied. (Natural Gas) Two people died when a portion of the house blew up.
The owner of the business killed himself due to guilt over it happening.
A really sad story all around. :(
Something like this happened a few years ago not far from here. Two people were killed in the explosion. And the wife was due to testify in a lawsuit against....Hillary Clinton!
Is there any other type of explosion other than “suddenly”?
Vaxx.
When I was a kid we had a house down the street from us explode from a leaking gas line. The home owner was negligent putting in a gas stove by him self and didn’t seal it properly. Thankfully they had gone out to dinner so the family survived. He had no home owners insurance, so that house became a vacant lot. It also damaged some neighbors homes and he had to pay out of pocket for that.
Per the below, FWIW, a criminal investigation as been launched...
Almost assuredly a gas leak. This is why there is no gas in any of my homes plural. Heat pumps are more efficient even in single digit temps with modern Mitsubishi units.
Induction cooktops heat faster with more precise temp control (single degree F) with Bluetooth probes most importantly with no radon,carbon monoxide or nitrous oxides. As a former professional back of house in NYC no less while at University. I would and so choose induction over gas any day every day with two exceptions both only outside kitchen use. 250,000 BTU wok burner which doubles as the 100 quart crawfish boiler burner. The other exemption is 1800 degree gas salamander for dry aged steaks like every high end steakhouse uses. Peter Luger and Delmonico’s both gas salamander their steaks having been personally in both those kitchens can confirm. There is no need in modern times to have flammable gas inside the home. Added benefit is with solar panels you can go off grid entirely, the gas grid is still a grid and as Texans painfully found out in Feb 21 it can collapse with little warning.
Always remember it was the gas grid collapse that brought down the Texas electric grid there are no less than 4 reports to our legislator confirming and reconfirming that. Has the gas operators winterized their operations nope single digit temps in Midland basin will tank the well heads again for sure, along with the poly surface lines, the gas separators full of water too.
That’s be my guess.
When we go out of town, we always turn off our gas and water.
Yes, I know they were home. At least when we’re around, we can smell the gas. And I’m up often enough at night that I’d likely catch it before it reached a critical level.
They had information on Hillary?
Natural gas rises to the top & builds from there. Propane is heavier and builds up from the floor. Interesting that neither one noticed the smell.
Years ago, my neighbor who was a carpenter came over to look at replacing some outside paneling. While on the phone with him, I could hear his wife saying something. Turns out he smelled a gas leak at my house a week earlier when he was checking it out!!
Said it was no big deal since NG rises but when I called the gas company, they told me to evacuate the house, came out within 30 minutes & installed a new gas meter since that’s where the leak came from.
A neighbor’s house blew up like that, but it was a gasoline leak in the garage from a car he was working on during the day. Fortunately, the blast blew down the bedroom ceiling which protected them in bed and gave them time to escape. It was really weird to see a house-shaped fire rising into the sky. The garage door blew across the street and the two cars in the driveway were toast.
Everyone freaked because they thought the couple was still in the house. It turned out they were in the back neighbor’s yard watching the fire.
Not so “tranquil” street.
Gas line or meth lab. Was the dog ok?
We saw a house blow in Santa Clara about 20 years ago.
Natural gas leak.
I installed a new gas water heater at an older brother’s house a few years back. In talking to the guys at a plumbing supply house I found and used a safety device for the gas line.
The device is small and connects right between the gas line and the extension to whatever appliance the gas is going to.
It operates on a standard in terms of the pressure in the gas line. There is always pressure in the gas line; that’s how it moves through the distribution pipelines into the residential and commercial end-use locations. Even when your gas powered appliance is operating there is still pressure in the supply line, because the rate of use of gas by the appliance is not the same as if the end of the line was merely “open”. A gas leak or a faulty appliance usually can be registered, by this device, as an “open line”. Once this little device detects such a drop in pressure in the gas line, it closes the internal valve it has, shutting the line at that point.