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Multiple Gas Explosions Set More Than 60 homes Ablaze Across Three Communities (1 Viewer)

Chimney/Santa jokes aside, amazing that with all of the exploding houses the only person killed was a kid sitting in his car. Poor, unlucky *******. :(

 
Chimney/Santa jokes aside, amazing that with all of the exploding houses the only person killed was a kid sitting in his car. Poor, unlucky *******. :(
One wonders what analogies will be drawn between car/chimney deaths and gun control by some posters in the political forum.

 
Chimney fell on a car with an 18 year old man inside.
That poor kid died.  

That's the only reported fatality.  I assumed there would be more, thankfully there wasn't.

EDIT:  Oops, now seeing this has already been covered.  I should have scrolled before responding.  I agree with the other commenters that things could have been far worse given the circumstances.

 
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Chimney/Santa jokes aside, amazing that with all of the exploding houses the only person killed was a kid sitting in his car. Poor, unlucky *******. :(
Just a few weeks ago one of the t.v. tabloid shows showed a guy who took off from a backed up traffic stop about two seconds before a giant tree would have flattened him and his car. Looked like he didn't even know what happen behind him.

 
Al O'Pecia said:
It may be difficult to find two adjacent towns/cities in America that are more different than Andover and Lawrence.
I lived out in LA for a bit and it was always funny when you reached the edge of Beverly Hills. I was in the middle of UCLA and USC and it was amazing the difference when you went towards UCLA/Beverly Hills or towards Crenshaw or USC. It was a long time ago but just a few miles in different directions were different worlds. 

 
Every home in the area on gas has to be checked. Anything that uses gas in the houses need to be inspected before gas is even turned on. The gas mains all need inspecting and probable replacing.  Unfortunately this is going to take a long time. Very long. Thank god this wasn’t the heating season as a lot of burners were off. If this was December/January the loss of  life and property would’ve been astronomical. 

 
Every home in the area on gas has to be checked. Anything that uses gas in the houses need to be inspected before gas is even turned on. The gas mains all need inspecting and probable replacing.  Unfortunately this is going to take a long time. Very long. Thank god this wasn’t the heating season as a lot of burners were off. If this was December/January the loss of  life and property would’ve been astronomical. 
Wow, I didn't even think of that.

 
No conspiracy theories about this being the worker of hackers? The warnings about our grid being compromised and compromisable have been around for years and this seems like something that would be done by a random guy mucking around.

 
https://youtu.be/T7HYA_HJbP4

This is a recording from Lawrence Fire from the start of the fires/explosions. To help understand, Lawrence engines are numbered in the 30’s, their ladders in the 40’s. Deputy chief is 21 and 20  is the Chief. Crazy and two towns next door dealt with the same chaotic scene.  We use a mutual aid system to get help in, but we all use the same so it was extremely hard knowing who was coming in. Cities and towns were monitoring and just came to the scenes and then a staging area. There was some great firefighting and work between different communities without radio communication.  Proud of ALL my fellow FFs working that scene. 

 
RIP to the poor kid in the car... but all I can picture is a Farmer's Insurance commercial...

Chimney lands on car...  "And we covered it"...

 
I know it’s terrible (I live 20 mins away and know people affected)... but hownanyone can listen to that recording and not be bored out of their skull I dunno 
I know it’s just noise to a lot of people who will listen to it. If you aren’t familiar how fire depts work on scene you won’t or can’t understand it either.  

 
https://youtu.be/T7HYA_HJbP4

This is a recording from Lawrence Fire from the start of the fires/explosions. To help understand, Lawrence engines are numbered in the 30’s, their ladders in the 40’s. Deputy chief is 21 and 20  is the Chief. Crazy and two towns next door dealt with the same chaotic scene.  We use a mutual aid system to get help in, but we all use the same so it was extremely hard knowing who was coming in. Cities and towns were monitoring and just came to the scenes and then a staging area. There was some great firefighting and work between different communities without radio communication.  Proud of ALL my fellow FFs working that scene. 
Four minutes in someone says to call Gas Company re: over pressurisation.  Pretty solid based on not very much info at that point.

 
wilked said:
I know it’s terrible (I live 20 mins away and know people affected)... but hownanyone can listen to that recording and not be bored out of their skull I dunno 
I grew up with scanner traffic constantly in my house. Dad was a chief (I was a volunteer for a while), and my mom actually used to work one of the town’s dispatch centers in what is now the family dining room until they centralized everything.

That said, it does take a certain :nerd:  factor to be able to listen/decipher all of that.

 

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