Gas Storage Facility Near Houston Explodes
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An explosion early Thursday at an underground gas storage facility forced dozens of residents from their homes, authorities said.
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An explosion and fire Wednesday at a chemical plant sent flames and billowing clouds of black smoke into the air.
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An accidental chemical release from Valero Energy Corp.'s Houston refinery on Wednesday sickened dozens of workers and triggered a warning for nearby residents to evacuate.
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Up to 100 people were injured in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the U.S. state of Georgia, the Savannah-Chatham police department said.
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An explosion killed four people, including a firefighter and an emergency worker, and leveled a gas station in Ghent, West Virginia, on Tuesday, local officials said.
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PARK CITY -- Two workers suffered injuries from a gas explosion at a construction site in the upper Deer Valley area Friday afternoon.  By the time firefighters arrived, the fire had extinguished itself.
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A massive gas explosion at an industrial complex near downtown Milwaukee killed one person, left another missing and destroyed two buildings on Wednesday, officials said.
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A massive natural gas explosion leveled a clinic Saturday, injuring nine people and shattering windows at a nearby hospital, authorities and witnesses said.
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HOUSTON - An explosion at a rubber maker's warehouse killed a man and blew out the building's windows and walls on Thursday, authorities said.  No other injuries were reported in the midday blast inside the American Elastomer Products warehouse in southeastern Houston.
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ALGIERS: A gas explosion yesterday killed 17 people and injured at least 40 others when a residential block collapsed in eastern Algeria, local authorities said.
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A tanker carrying chlorine gas exploded Tuesday morning outside a restaurant in the Iraqi town of Taji, killing at least six people, an Interior Ministry official said. At least 105 other people were either injured by the blast or poisoned by the fumes.
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An explosion at a South African gas plant has killed five workers and injured at least 100 others. A spokesman for the Sasol energy company says the blast occurred Wednesday at its ethylene plant in the northeastern town of Secunda, Mpumalanga.
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An explosion rocked a Texas oil refinery Monday morning, shaking homes three miles away, witnesses told CNN.
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MOSS BLUFF - A voluntary evacuation order was lifted hours after natural gas from an underground storage cavern exploded near the Liberty-Chambers county line Thursday morning, sending flames 150 to 200 feet into the air ...
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Top two stories of structure in Victoria crumble following apparent explosion.
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By Robert Crowe, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--Four people were taken to hospitals after a 55-gallon drum of sulfuric acid exploded Monday night at a southeast Houston chemical plant.   The fire started about 8:20 p.m. at SET Environmental Inc., 5738 Cheswood.
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A new explosion rocked an underground  natural gas storage site early Friday, sending a fireball into  the sky and prompting the evacuation of homes near the blaze,  which has raged since early Thursday.