At least 15 people were injured after a gas explosion and fire on Thursday afternoon in the Village of Wappingers Falls, New York. Five of the individuals are first responders – one firefighter and four police officers – and of the other 10,…
A suspected underground gas explosion has ripped open roads and overturned more than 20 vehicles in South Africa. Authorities said the blast during the evening rush hour in Johannesburg has injured at least nine people who were sent to hospital. Their injuries were…
Ten people, including two teenagers and a young child, were killed in Friday’s explosion at a gas filling station in the northwest of Ireland, local authorities said. Irish police said that among the 10 dead in the blast in Donegal…
A "HAPPY" four-year-old girl was been killed in an alleged gas explosion after locals reported smelling fumes for a WEEK. The child was pronounced dead at the scene in Galpin's Road, Thornton Heath, on Monday. Four others were injured in…
A natural gas pipeline has exploded in a rural area about 40 miles outsides Houston, according to Fort Bend County officials. An image of the scene, captured on Thursday, showed a massive tower of flames and smoke spiralling over a field. Fort Bend…
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) will pay $55 million as part of a settlement with multiple Northern California counties scorched by wildfires that were sparked by faulty utility equipment, according to releases from the California utility giant and the Sonoma…
A man in his 90s has died and homes have been left without power after reports of a gas explosion in Manchester. Emergency services were called to Brownley Road in Wythenshawe at about 6.30pm on Thursday and the man was found dead…
Beijing At least three people were killed and more than 30 injured in a powerful explosion at a restaurant in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang on Thursday morning, according to local authorities. The gas explosion took place in a…
A fire on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico erupted after a gas leak from an underwater pipeline sparked a blaze, according to Mexico’s state-owned Pemex petrol company. Footage of the fire – appearing to boil the ocean’s surface with bright orange flames –…
Rescue and clean-up work continued on Monday after a deadly natural gas explosion took the lives of 25 people and injured 138 others in Shiyan, Central China's Hubei Province on Sunday, with workers clearing debris and checking to see if…