The cause of a propane explosion that killed one Maine firefighter and severely injured others has been revealed. Fire Marshal Joe Thomas cited an augerhead used to drill a metal post into the ground as the source of a break in a line that caused gas to fill LEAP, a facility for the disabled in Farmington. “We want to find…

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…

A propane leak appears to be the cause of an explosion inside a New Hampshire hotel on Christmas Day, fire officials said Thursday. Ten people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the early morning blast at the Element Hotel in Lebanon. Firefighters responded to the Foot Hill Street property at 5:15 a.m. to check out a report of smoke in a mechanical…

New Hampshire fire investigators are calling it a “Christmas miracle” that no one died in an explosion just after 5 a.m. inside the Element Hotel in Lebanon. However, 10 people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the Christmas Eve blast. “As the [Lebanon] chief said to me, ‘It’s a Christmas miracle,’ and it really is,” New Hampshire State Fire Marshal Paul Parisi…

An explosion and fire in a residential building in Mattapan on Saturday displaced 150 people, according to the Boston Fire Department. Authorities responded to the incident at 110 Livermore Street, a 40-unit residential building, early Saturday afternoon, where they found a gas-fed fire in the laundry room. The fire and explosions caused about $200,000 in damages.

Thirty people were displaced by a deadly gas explosion in Maine on Monday and remain without a home. Food and safe shelter are being provided to the residents of a mobile home park that was destroyed in the powerful blast, according to the Red Cross, which said it’s working with 10 displaced people.

As the community of Farmington, Maine, remains in shock after a deadly explosion, donations are pouring in to help. A powerful gas explosion leveled a facility for people with disabilities Monday morning, killing Farmington Fire Captain Michael Bell, a 30-year veteran of the department. His brother, the town’s fire chief, was one of seven other people injured in the...

Federal, state and local authorities are investigating a powerful gas explosion that leveled a building in Farmington, Maine, a day earlier, as the community mourned the loss of a fire captain killed in the blast. Captain Michael Bell, 68, a 30-year veteran of the Farmington Fire Department, was killed in the explosion. His body was transported to the medical examiner’s...

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...

The powerful gas explosion that leveled a building in Farmington, Maine, Monday killed a fire captain and injured seven other people, including his brother, the town’s fire chief, officials said. The explosion happened Monday morning at a facility serving people with disabilities. Captain Michael Bell, 68, was identified by the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office Monday afternoon as the man killed....

Dozens of emergency responders are at the scene of a propane gasoline explosion at a facility for people who are disabled in Farmington, Maine.

Authorities are reportedly responding to an explosion at a facility for people with disabilities in Farmington, Maine.

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.

Two people were injured in an explosion at a water treatment facility in Stamford on Aug. 1.

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.

A fire and explosion on a small boat sent smoke soaring above Lake Winnipesaukee Saturday afternoon, authorities said. Six people were forced to jump off the boat, which floated toward Meredith Bay and the MS Mount Washington.

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.