3 dead after Texas gas blast. At least 10 missing after giant fire at natural gas pipeline

Msnbc ^ | june 7, 2010 | Msnbc

[Irisshlass]

CLEBURNE, Texas - Officials say three people were killed and at least 10 people were missing and about a half-dozen more were injured when a gas line exploded Monday after it was struck by workers.

Cleburne city manager Chester Nolen said three people are dead and at least 10 people were missing, Dallas-Fort Worth television station WFAA reported.

Johnson County Emergency Management Coordinator Jack Snow told The Associated Press about six people were transported to hospitals. He said officials believe a gas line was struck with a digging machine.

[Irisshlass]

Laura Harlin, a resident of nearby Granbury, said the explosion made a "huge rumbling" and sounded like a tornado even from 8 miles away.

Cleburne is about 50 miles southwest of Dallas.

Television images showed a large fireball and a burned out vehicle and construction equipment.

Glen Rose Medical Center confirmed to NBC News that five people arrived at their emergency room suffering injuries from a gas explosion in Johnson County, Texas. A hospital spokesman said those injured were in stable condition

[nascarnation]

Baraq’s fault!

[Irisshlass]

First we had a coal blast, then a oil rig, now this...something is going on.

[Venturer]

Call Miss Utility.

[Dacula]

Go here to watch live.

http://www.wfaa.com/home/related/Watch-Live-Video-Now-81269727.html

[Irisshlass]

ping

[GoCards]

Prayers.

Obama to ban ALL tools until further notice. News at 6.

[deport]

Enterprise Products Partners said it owned the 36-inch pipeline, which is part of its Texas Intrastate system. The explosion was 15 miles south of Godley, Texas.

WFAA-TV, a Dallas television station, quoted Chester Nolen, city manager of Cleburne, Texas, as saying 10 people were missing following the explosion. Cleburne is the largest city near the explosion.

The blast was originally thought to be an oil well explosion.

An electrical crew was digging a hole when it struck the gas pipeline, an emergency services spokesman in Hood County, Texas, said.

The first indication Enterprise had of a problem on the pipeline was a sudden drop in pressure seen at the company's operations center, said spokesman Rick Rainey.

"We have isolated that segment of line," Rainey said. "Our crews have been dispatched to the scene. Basically that line is equipped with line breaks that allows us to shut in that segment in case of a sudden drop in pressure."

[deport]

First we had a coal blast, then a oil rig, now this...something is going on.

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Yep a utility crew didn’t do a proper locate and bored into a 36” gas pipeline. Bet it wasn’t done on purpose but someone screwed up at some point in the process.

[Mad Dawgg]

Very interesting, we've had a coal mine cave in, an oil rig explosion, and now a natural gas pipeline explosion...

I know that there can be coincidences but wow, I think we are pushing the envelope here on believability.

[chooseascreennamepat]

The Palo Verde Nuke plant 40 Mi. west of Phx is due for a problem. That corrupu commie bastard won’t be happy until he has totally wiped out the infrastructure in this country.

Bit by bit!

[dalebert]

any terrorists working there?

[Irisshlass]

I know that there can be coincidences but wow, I think we are pushing the envelope here on believability

Thats what I thought when I saw this.

[COBOL2Java]

First question to come to mind is: Were regulations somehow “relaxed” for this company? Second question: How much money did this company pay Obama?

[Mr. Jazzy]

36” line! Yeow!!! I thought it was some smaller domestic or neighborhood line.

[worst-case scenario]

You’re leaving out the natural gas well explosion in Pennsylvania last Friday ...
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/Natural_Gas_Well_Leak_Pennsylvania_Clearfield_County_060410

and the natural gas explosion in Ct. that killed five people back in Feb.:http://www.heatingoil.com/blog/123290208/

the Tesoro refinery in Washington State that killed four in April: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/03/nation/la-na-refinery-fire3-2010apr03 ...

I’m sure there would be more if you googled for them.

“Something” is going on - what is it? Is it just the cost of doing business?

[RC2]

He will now close down all natural gas plants to form a committee to investigate. Wanna bet?

[CalvaryJohn]

I smell Reichstag smoke.

[mojitojoe]

ya think? Be careful, people here on FR will call you an drill hater and a conspiracy theorist.
I think there are a lot of funny things going on. He MUST get cap and trade passed. HE MUST. Whatever it takes, HE MUST!

[Irisshlass]

It is evident with me especially now Obama and the democrats pushing cap and trade.