[Don Joe]

Yeah, but even with LPG not every fuel car would BLEVE at the same time.... for several cars to explode at once would require some timing, If one car blew, several people, into the hundreds would have died, but there would have been enough time for people to clear out before the other cars popped....

I don't buy the idea of a series of random low order explosions, with no oxygen (other than atmospheric), blowing up with sufficient force to fling debris for 35 miles.

NWIH do I buy that explanation.

[Porterville]

I think the NFPA requires that if a fuel tanker is about to pop then the Firefighters and the public need to be 2500 feet or 1/2 mile from the tanker, however, pieces will blow out to about 3/4 of a mile or more... 35 miles out??? I have know idea.