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Gas Explosion Rips Through Madrid Building, Killing 4
A powerful gas explosion has torn through a residential building in central Madrid, killing four people and ripping the facade off the structure
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Possible Gas Explosion Levels Long Island Home, Leaves Man Severely Burned
A possible gas explosion rocked a Long Island neighborhood early Sunday morning, leaving extensive damage to multiple homes and sending several people to nearby hospitals. Neighbors in Meadowmere Park first heard the explosion around 6 a.m. Meadowmere Park Fire Chief Kevin Carrero lives in the neighborhood and woke up to the noise. “It was like a big explosion, like a…
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Explosion Damages Long Island Homes, Injuries Firefighters
A 63-year-old man living inside the home that exploded was airlifted to a hospital for severe burns, police said. Phil Lipof reports.
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Gas Explosion Destroys Homes on Long Island
A gas explosion leveled one home and severely damaged another; at least one person had to be airlifted to a hospital. Katherine Creag reports.
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Homes Destroyed in Long Island Gas Explosion
A gas explosion rocked a neighborhood in Long Island, causing a fire that destroyed at least one home and damaged a couple neighboring homes as well. Katherine Creag reports.
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Survivor Said She Smelled Gas Before Baltimore Explosion
The number of people in critical condition following a deadly explosion that leveled three Baltimore row homes has dropped from five to one
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Trio Sentenced to 4 to 12 Years for Deadly 2015 East Village Gas Explosion
Three people involved in the 2015 gas explosion in Manhattan’s East Village that killed two people, injured more than a dozen others and leveled three buildings were sentenced to four to 12 years on Friday. A jury last year found Maria Hrynenko, 59, Athanasios “Jerry” Ioannidis, 63, and Dilber Kukic, 44, guilty of manslaughter in the second degree and assault in…
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Trio Sentenced for Deadly 2015 East Village Explosion
The building’s owner, a plumber and contractor were all sentenced to 4 to 12 years in prison for their roles in a explosion that was caused by an illegal gas main tap. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.
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Three Found Guilty in East Village Explosion Trial
The jury took two days to convict three people, a landlord, plumber and contractor, in connection to the deaths of two people in the horrific East Village building explosion. The three were found guilty on manslaughter, assault and other charges. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.
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Smoke Rises After Explosion, Partial Collapse of Northeast Philadelphia Home
A gas explosion tore off part of a Northeast Philadelphia home Thursday, leaving debris strewn on the ground below.
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Trial Begins in East Village Gas Explosion That Killed 2
Opening statements have begun in the trial related to the 2015 gas explosion in Manhattan’s East Village that killed two people, injured 19 others and leveled three buildings.
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Gas Explosion Rocks Howard County Building
A gas explosion was responsible for the likely destruction of a Howard County office building on Sunday morning, fire and EMS officials say.
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‘Like The World Was Ending': Shopping Plaza Blast Injures 23
A vacant pizza restaurant exploded in a thundering roar at a South Florida shopping plaza, injuring more than 20 people as large chunks of concrete flew through the air.
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‘Like The World Was Ending': Shopping Plaza Blast Injures 23
A vacant pizza restaurant exploded in a thundering roar at a South Florida shopping plaza, injuring more than 20 people as large chunks of concrete flew through the air.
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Massive Flames From SF Gas Explosion Torch 5 Buildings, Including Popular Chinese Restaurant
Massive flames from a gas explosion destroyed five buildings in San Francisco’s busy Geary Boulevard Wednesday afternoon — including a popular Chinese restuarant — and prompted evacuations within a one-mile radius of the fire zone but resulted in no injuries, firefighters said.
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Death Toll in Mexican Pipeline Fire Rises to 109
The death toll in a massive fire at an illegally tapped pipeline in Mexico has risen to 109 after 10 more injured people died at hospitals. Mexico’s Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer said Friday that the latest victims who were severely burned died between Wednesday and early Friday. He said hospitals continue to treat about 40 injured victims. The victims were...
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Mexico Pipeline Explosion Kills Dozens
A fireball erupted at the site of a fuel pipeline leak after it appeared to be ruptured by thieves.
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PG&E Shakes Up Management After Regulators Accuse Utility of Falsifying Safety Inspections
PG&E says it shook up management in light of what it calls “unacceptable” conduct by unspecified managers who regulators say exerted pressure on crews to falsify “tens of thousands” of gas safety inspections as being on time when they were late.
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Hook on PG&E Tower Eyed as Cause of Deadly Camp Fire
NBC Bay Area has learned that authorities investigating the deadly Camp Fire have tied its origin to the failure of a single steel hook that held up a high voltage line on a nearly 100-year-old PG&E transmission tower.
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Flames Rage Through Homes in Lakewood
Reports of a fire and gas explosion in Lakewood, New Jersey, forced evacuations of dozens of families. Lori Bordonaro reports.