LAFD firefighters hurt in CNG explosion - several critical

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GeoC

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CNG, LNG, propane all dangerous. I remember being told to use the ‘rule of Thumb’ approach. Stick your hand out and raise your thumb if you can see it around your thumb your to close!
Hope for speedy recovery and walk away lucky. This job can kill you in to many ways 🙁
 
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List of pipeline accidents in the United States in 1978 - Wikipedia

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I buffed the Brookside gas pipeline explosion in the middle of the night in October, 1978. I was ten miles away; it looked like sunrise and sounded like a jet airliner taking off. About a mile away later, it sounded like the world was coming to an end. The flame was several hundred feet high.

Natural gas is a boon to society. When it's compressed and on fire, you don't want to be anywhere around!
 
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LA Captain on YouTube has all LAFD and LAPD scanners live and archived.
Here's the dispatch in real time from the day of this fire. First dispatch comes in shortly after the 5:08:50 mark in this video
 
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