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The three firefighters closest to the explosion were killed instantly, and eight more died from burns shortly thereafter. In addition to the eleven city firefighters and one railroad worker killed in the disaster, one state trooper was also killed in the explosion. Over 90 onlookers gathered on the highway were burned or injured, some badly.
Timothy McVeigh. Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American domestic terrorist who perpetrated the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The bombing killed 168 people (19 of whom were children), injured 680, and destroyed one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. [5] [6] It remains the deadliest act of ...
A special-effects explosion went wrong during filming on 15 August 1998, when stuntman Marc Akerstream was struck on the head and killed by flying debris. Dinosaur (2000). A crew member was killed and another seriously wounded when a camera boom struck a cross-country power line. I Dare You: The Ultimate Challenge (2000).
The San Juanico disaster involved a series of fires and explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in the settlement of San Juan Ixhuatepec (popularly known as San Juanico), municipality of Tlalnepantla de Baz, State of Mexico, Mexico on 19 November 1984. [1] The facility and the settlement, part of Greater Mexico City, were ...
The San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, when a 30-inch (76 cm) diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded into flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood 2 miles (3.2 km) west of San Francisco International Airport near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue.
1973 – Kingman Explosion, propane tanker BLEVE incident kills 13, injures 107. 1978 – Los Alfaques disaster kills 217 on a campsite near Tarragona, in Spain on July 11. 1990 – 1990 Bangkok gas explosion caused 88 deaths. 2000 – Ibadan tanker truck explosion multiple car pile-up explodes 100–200 killed.
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.
54–300 deaths (exact number not known) The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome ( Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized : Katastrofa na Baikonure ), was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan.