And another one!!!- Gas explosion reported in Springfield, Massachusetts

just homer simpson lighting the furnace. it's called "winter", combine the impending cold weather with neglected old POS furnaces, and cheapskate dopes with strike-anywhere matches, and you get increased incidence of fireworks

Furnace replaced in 2007 I win

Poverty leads to lack of maintenance.
Stupidity leads to....well..

I don't think they are coincidences. I posted this earlier and its suspicious b/c it happened on a holiday when staff would be low, thank God, this guy was on the ball and got the faulty valve shut off with just a plume and loud boom b/f it went ballistic.

Thread: Another gas line explosion barely averted in Northeast Pa.

Top story on FAUX news right now. Claiming there was a mushroom cloud with it. Not certain it was gas.

Slideshow

[link to www.myfoxboston.com]

Felt 30 miles away

[link to www.fox5vegas.com]

I live a block away from there and the explosion was felt in two waves. What no one is talking about is that Springfield got two bomb threats yesterday before this happened. One directed towards the court house( [link to www.wggb.com] ) and another towards a local tower.

Another one in Detroit...

DETROIT, Mich. -
A home sustains significant damage due to a suspected gas leak explosion on Plainview Street near Tireman on Detroit's west side.

A man inside the home at the time of the explosion was taken by EMS to the hospital for minor injuries.

The Detroit Fire Department responded to the scene shortly before 6 p.m. this evening...


[link to www.clickondetroit.com]

Article says it was a gentlemen's (cough) club. Wasn't one of the last explosions some kind of place like that as well?