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Subject: Exploding houses
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shadow27 14.09.18 - 02:23pm
100 homes in Masachusetts have burst into flame after gasline overpressurization caused what seemed to be Armageddon..
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. Deadly gas-line explosions tore through several communities north of Boston on Thursday, setting homes on fire, forcing evacuations across three towns and leaving at least one person dead and 10 people hospitalized.
Hours later after a traumatic afternoon of fiery chaos turned into a night of eerie darkness with power shut off for thousands officials were still unsure when it would be safe for the displaced residents of Lawrence, North Andover and Andover to return home.
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shadow27 14.09.18 - 02:24pm
But investigators had begun to zero in on the potential cause of the explosions: over-pressurization of a gas main owned by Columbia Gas, which had been upgrading equipment in the area, according to Jennifer Mieth, a spokeswoman for the state fire marshals office. Before the explosions on Thursday, Columbia Gas notified customers that it would be ''upgrading natural gas lines in neighborhoods across the state,'' and said that the move would bring increased reliability and ''enhanced safety features.'' * +
shadow27 14.09.18 - 02:27pm
A short time later, Massachusetts State Police received between 60 and 100 reports of structure fires and gas explosions in the three communities, and fire crews battled dozens of simultaneous blazes.
''It looked like Armageddon,'' Andover Fire Chief Michael Mansfieldtold reporters. ''There were billows of smoke coming from Lawrence behind me. I could see plumes of smoke in front of me. ... It just looked like an absolute war zone.''
it really did look hectic.
Like, you know that bit at the start of Dawn of the Dead.. And stuff is just exploding everywhere. It was exactly like that. * +
3mel 14.09.18 - 02:27pm
I see a gas company being sued out of existence * +
peta 14.09.18 - 02:28pm
Yes, indeed its such a sad thing. 
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bambi99 14.09.18 - 02:42pm
Probably take as long as grenfell compensation .. * +
bambi99 14.09.18 - 02:44pm
I'm amazed there was only one fatality ,from the footage I saw last night * +
mikeymk 14.09.18 - 03:08pm
Whoops * +
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