Retired school nurse, husband killed in earth-shaking house explosion

https://www.nj.com/ ^ | 7/8/18 | Rebecca Everett

[BBell]

The couple had a new stove delivered Friday. I would start there, if you can find it.

Can't post the picture per AP has claimed it but there is absolutely nothing left standing that I can see.

[grey_whiskers]

What did they have on Hillary?

[wally_bert]

Or did they not give her enough?

[Grampa Dave]

“The couple had a new stove delivered Friday. I would start there, if you can find it.”

Who delivered and installed the new stove, and is English their primary language.

[damper99]

I lived in a neighborhood where a house was obliterated by a gas explosion. Plumbing crew broke the gas line and couldn’t shut it off. There wasn’t a piece of wood longer than two feet left and the bricks were all shattered. There was nothing left but the basement.

[fireman15]

When I was still a probationary firefighter, my lieutenant and I were just about to enter a house on fire when gas from a propane tank in the basement exploded and blew out all of the doors and windows in the house from top to bottom. It didn't flatten the house but it did remind me of a lot of those Hollywood movie scenes where a house blows up with fire coming out of all of the openings. And of course the place burned to the ground after that.

I went to a whole lot of gas leaks during my career, the vast majority of which didn't cause any real damage so they get to routine. But I never forgot that gas has a wide explosive range and can cause an impressive and dangerous explosion under the right circumstances.

[FreedomPoster]

In one of the neighborhoods I lived in growing up, two houses were leveled by a gas exposion, and a 3rd damaged so badly it had to be leveled. Leak caused by utility construction in the street nearby. I was at school, but mom said that insulation came out of the sky like snow at our house a 1/3rd of a mile away or so.

Lesson: Take natural gas piping and connections seriously.

[FreedomPoster]

Oh, 3 people died in that one.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

They now have combined explosive gas and carbon monoxide detectors for a very reasonable price. Here is the selection from Home Depot. No doubt Lowes and the others have a similar selection. I already have a CO detector, probably should upgrade to a combo unit.

[BBell]

Being New Jersey you would think that to get a stove installed you would have to have a permit, license, union card, permission from the fire department, OSHA card, inspector present before, after, and during installation, ambulance standing by, police notified, gas company official present with a service truck and a union car, etc.

[BBell]

I'm glad that happened to you during your probationary period. You had no time to become complacent and I bet you always thought of it when you had a similar call.

Of course it would have been better if it had never happened to you at all.

[Jim Noble]

I’ve only had gas in my house once.

In the gas vs oil debate, remember - oil heat houses never “just blow up”.

[daler]

"Lesson: Take natural gas piping and connections seriously."

Or burn fuel oil.

Not a lot of asphyxiations or explosions connected with that stuff.

[BBell]

Those things are great but some of them are so sensitive that you get a lot of false alarms. Cat pee will make them go off as well as a oven that has been opened to name a few. I worked in an apartment complex and base housing and those things get to be a pain. Mostly operator error. People like to put them in the kitchen and that is not a good place. But try convincing a no it all military spouse or member that. They know everything.

[BBell]

True. Oil houses just burn hotter and slower.

[DoughtyOne]

Retired school nurse, husband killed in earth-shaking house explosion

Elderly Married Couple Killed in Earth-shaking House Explosion

I don't like death notices involving married people, that give one person top billing over the other.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A house full of gas is basically a pressure-cooker bomb.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, that is total destruction there.

[BBell]

Cool. AP hasn’t trademarked that one yet.

[Popman]

A little Gorilla Glue will fix that right up....