Posted on 07/08/2018 9:08:48 AM PDT by BBell
A fatal early morning explosion that obliterated a two-story house and killed a couple jolted people from their beds as much as a mile and a half away, and sent waves of shock and sadness through the small community of Newfield.
"It breaks your heart," said Wayne Ingling, a friend of the couple who lives in nearby North Vineland. "These are people that went to bed last night like everybody else and they don't get to wake up today."
John, 73, and Carole Paladino, 72, were the only people inside the Oakwood Drive home when it exploded around 6:15 a.m., authorities said. Autopsies Sunday would determine the exact cause of death.
Authorities said the cause of the blast is still being determined, but they don't suspect foul play. The call came in as a gas explosion, and gas was temporarily shut off to area homes.
Ingling, a volunteer firefighter in Vineland, said he couldn't believe the destruction he saw when he arrived at the place where the Paladino house used to be, not long after the blast. There was no house, and debris was scattered as far as the eye could see.
"It just looked like ground zero. Mattress parts in the wires and trees. Windows blown out of the other houses," he said. One neighbor found a Christmas card, he said, and someone else found a Medicare letter.
Photographs of the scene showed a thick layer of rubble across the property, insulation hanging from trees, pieces of the walls lying in a pool, and debris scattered on a neighbor's yard and trampoline. A Daily Journal video showed the smoking wreckage.
Ingling said he has known Carole Paladino for around 50 years, as they were in the same class at Vineland High School.
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Flippant comments aside, if your home is served with nat gas, a leak sensor can save the lives of you & your family.
Just sayin’.
Wow— poor old couple was blasted thoroughly into eternity.
I have gas and I have one. The cheap price is worth your life.
Many years ago, I worked for a Home Appliance Delivery Service - those guys made more mistakes than people ever knew about. One crew burned down a house using the wrong pipe & connector on a Gas Dryer - thankfully everyone got out alive. The company was sued for big $$.
Poor couple. This is one reason that I’m not a fan of natural gas even though my house has a “split” heating and cooling system. The heating is natural gas and the cooling is electric.
A few years ago, we had problems with our heating system so we hired a man from the next county to fix it. A couple of days later, we smelled gas in the house and were getting headaches.
We called the gas company and they came, along with a couple of firemen. They informed us that it was carbon monoxide and that the repairman who worked on our heater was negligent.
We would have sued but we aren’t that type of people. Instead, we warn everyone to not use that particular repair company. We now have a Carbon Monoxide detector in our home.
When the article mentioned the new stove, I was reminded of an acquaintance whose daughter’s large, beautiful home burned because of a faulty gas stove. The stove exploded and caught the house on fire. Luckily, the family was going on vacation the next day and weren’t home because they had taken their dog to be boarded.
I have always said that I would never own a gas stove. Apparently my fears are well founded.
I’m in agreement with you about investigating that stove.
Recently an older upper middle class neighborhood in Dallas had a string of gas explosions. The gas company had to shut the gas off to several thousand homes and replace the old iron pipes.
I learned one very interesting about natural gas the perfume that gives gas it’s smell is absorbed by dirt and the gas becomes orderless. If it then seaps into a house it can’t be smelled by people.
“A house full of gas is basically a pressure-cooker bomb.”
Car hits house which detonates after homeowner lights cigarette as PD rolls up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOFRcgY7pdk
“I learned one very interesting about natural gas the perfume that gives gas it’s smell is absorbed by dirt and the gas becomes orderless.”
Flies will congregate around an area where there is a leak. It also kills the grass.
Gas needs to be treated with respect.
A number of years ago we had a new water heater put in. One of the connections was not sealed properly.
I woke up in the middle of the night with a raging headache and the feeling that something was very wrong. I managed to wake my husband up who figured out what was going on and called the gas company.
I did not know that and I used to hook up and replace gas lines. Only at the units though as I was just an HVAC tech who also did maintenance.
Perhaps 8>)
“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.”
Unless, Louie The Torcher, had a contract on the home.
And learn the smell! Easy to catch a wiff!
Dollars to donuts it revolves around the new gas stove.
In my part of southern PA at least one house is leveled every winter due to NG explosions brought on by deep freeze cracking of the lines.
Happened to a small town fire chief about 20 years ago.
We hate the digging up of the streets for line replacement but those old pipes are killers.
We went to a major gas leak one evening. A main in the middle of a road that was being upgraded was hit by an excavator. It was very noisy and the surrounding area did have the associated stench. Because of the size of the main the gas company couldn't turn it off without causing a major disruption in service to thousands of homes. Fortunately it was in an industrial area, after hours with only one home nearby. They were unhappy that we made them evacuate.
We were the first units on-scene I was the senior officer in charge of the hazmat team. But the gas company's emergency response team was notified first and arrived before we did. I asked them what they needed us to assist them with.
They just wanted us to cover the team that was going into the trench with hand-lines in case the gas somehow caught on fire.
I asked them what we should expect if the gas did ignite. I was told it would create a big fireball that could be dangerous especially to anyone who wasn't wearing protective gear and then a giant torch that would create enough heat to be dangerous to personnel and equipment nearby. They felt that because of the conditions that it was not an extremely dangerous situation.
When my battalion chief came by to check on us an hour or so into the event, he and his aide became highly agitated and thought that this could result in a huge explosion that would flatten surrounding structures and kill a bunch of us. I told him that the gas company technicians didn't think so. He remained skeptical and I have heard of events that have resulted in major damage and casualties. But it depends on the wind conditions, the terrain, the temperature, the buoyancy of the gas and other factors. I trusted the judgment of the gas company emergency response team leadership.
I’m using gorilla tape- Meh- I think it’s about on par with duct tape- Maybe holds slightly better-
I know you said that as a joke, but guess what ?
"As per standard protocol and procedures, this report details, SVR analysts, in their replying to the MoD’s request for information about this “event”, conducted a database search of the two persons named as having been killed in this explosion– Carole Paladino, age 72, and her husband John Paladino, age 73—with, and very surprisingly to them, a SVR database “target hit” on Carole Paladino being revealed as she had previously been identified by SVRanalysts as being a “probable witness” against the Clinton Foundation. "
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It looks like a tornado touched down in the neighborhood.
Good analogy.
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