gas explosion

A powerful gas explosion has torn through a residential building in central Madrid, killing four people and ripping the facade off the structure

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…

A 63-year-old man living inside the home that exploded was airlifted to a hospital for severe burns, police said. Phil Lipof reports.

A gas explosion leveled one home and severely damaged another; at least one person had to be airlifted to a hospital. Katherine Creag reports.

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.

The number of people in critical condition following a deadly explosion that leveled three Baltimore row homes has dropped from five to one

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…

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.

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.

A gas explosion tore off part of a Northeast Philadelphia home Thursday, leaving debris strewn on the ground below.

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.

A gas explosion was responsible for the likely destruction of a Howard County office building on Sunday morning, fire and EMS officials say.

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.

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.

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.

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...

A fireball erupted at the site of a fuel pipeline leak after it appeared to be ruptured by thieves.

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.

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.

Reports of a fire and gas explosion in Lakewood, New Jersey, forced evacuations of dozens of families. Lori Bordonaro reports.