An updated assessment released Monday of the impact of a massive explosion at a warehouse in Houston that killed two workers and injured 20 others shows that 450 structures, mostly homes, were damaged. The new total is more than double the initial assessment of about 200 damaged structures after the explosion early Friday at a building at Watson Grinding and…

A massive explosion Friday leveled a warehouse in Houston, leaving at least two people dead, damaging nearby buildings and homes and rousing frightened residents from their sleep miles away, authorities said. The explosion happened about 4:30 a.m. inside a building at Watson Grinding and Manufacturing, which makes valves and provides thermal-spray coatings for equipment in various industries, authorities said. The…

Two people are dead after a large explosion at a warehouse in Houston early Friday damaged buildings, scattered debris and sent a loud boom across the city, the city’s police chief confirmed.

A large explosion at an apparent industrial building in Houston early Friday left rubble scattered in the area, damaged homes and was felt for miles away.

A home security camera captured a large explosion at an industrial building in Houston Friday morning before it was knocked to the ground.

A veteran firefighter is dead and seven other people injured, including his brother, after a powerful propane gas explosion Monday ripped through a facility that serves people with disabilities in Farmington, Maine. The building was reduced to rubble. The blast rocked the area and sent dust high into the sky, according to witnesses. Many of the other victims who were...

A homeowner near Pittsburgh blew up his house on his daughter’s wedding day, police said shortly after his body was found in the rubble late Saturday.

A regional gas pipeline ruptured early Thursday in Kentucky, causing a massive explosion that killed one person, hospitalized five others, destroyed railroad tracks and forced the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park, authorities said. Some homes were consumed by the blaze when firefighters extinguished the flames hours later, Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Don Gilliam said.

Video of a gas explosion that killed a utility worker, injured a mother, and rocked a Murietta neighborhood Tuesday was captured by the home’s doorbell camera, offering a one-of-a-kind perspective of the blow out’s power and devastation.

A Murrieta mother who was inside her home when a deadly gas explosion erupted is still in disbelief that she escaped the blast with only minor injuries.

A utility worker was killed and 15 other people were injured Monday in a natural gas line explosion and fire that reduced a Murrieta home to charred rubble.

Three children were transported to the hospital with burns after an explosion Friday night.

Video shows an explosion and fire at the University of Lyon in France. Officials say three people were slightly injured in the blast.

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An 11-month-old baby was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Russia Tuesday. The baby survived a day and a half in sub-freezing temperatures and is reportedly in stable condition. At least 28 people were killed when a gas line exploded underneath the building. The baby’s parents also survived the collapse.

An explosion caused by a gas leak at a Texas hospital killed three people and injured 13 others.

The NYPD has suspended the use of a certain kind of body camera “effective immediately” after one of them exploded.
A police officer was wearing a Vievu model LE-5 body-worn camera on a “midnight tour” on Saturday night when the camera started smoking.

Over 70 homes in Lawrence, Massachusetts went up in flames following an explosion from a gas line. It is believed that the explosion was caused by an overpressurized gas line.

Grieving emergency personnel in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec carried the caskets of four comrades through the town’s streets Friday as authorities investigated whether an attempt to douse burning fireworks with water may have triggered further blasts that killed a total of 24 people. The four were among seven firefighters, police officers and civil defense workers killed when they...