Transformer explosion rocks midtown Manhattan
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A transformer exploded in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, creating a roar and a huge plume of smoke and sending pedestrians fleeing from the area in scenes reminiscent of the September 11 attacks.
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A three-story building collapsed in   Manhattan on Monday morning after what may have been an   explosion, resulting in injuries, officials and witnesses said.
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An explosion has ripped through a section of a pipeline near the Baiji refinery in northern Iraq. Witnesses say the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear.
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By Tricia Pemberton, The Daily Oklahoman  May 26--EDMOND -- Police and fire crews responded to what appeared to be an explosion Friday in an Edmond residential area.
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A three-story building collapsed in   Manhattan on Monday morning after an apparent gas explosion,   causing injuries, a frantic rescue operation and sending smoke   billowing into the air.
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A lightning strike leads to a massive power failure, and looters take to New York City's streets.
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Fire and emergency crews responded to the scene of a suspected steam explosion near Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on Wednesday during the evening rush hour, officials said.
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(Source: ProCurve) At a high-tech ballistics center managed by National Technical Systems in Camden, Arkansas, HP simulated a gas leak using real explosives that resulted in a very real explosion and datacenter destruction.
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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.
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A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.
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According to preliminary accounts, the worker suffered a fatal electric shock at 1:38 p.m. at a Con Edison plant at 20th Avenue and 31st Street in Astoria, Queens.
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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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A fire breaks out at the transformer block of a nuclear plant in northern Germany, police say.
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A small chemical explosion at News Corp headquarters in midtown Manhattan on Monday injured one person, a New York Fire Department spokesman said.
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Debris from an explosion of an aging steam pipe in midtown Manhattan contained asbestos, New York authorities said on Thursday, but no airborne samples of the dangerous mineral fiber were detected.
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NEW YORK, July 18 -- An underground steam pipe exploded through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, causing a brief panic about a possible terrorist attack.
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A brief power outage darkened a large swath of Manhattan and the Bronx on Wednesday, knocking out traffic lights, cutting subway service and forcing the evacuation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on one of the hottest days of the year.