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5 Alarm Blaze After Explosion

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Luckily no serious harm done to the residents or the Firefighters! I heard the gas company was first in they responded to a strange smell in the building then called for the firefighters. suspected it was a gas leak but now I think it was a defective transformer overheated. The smell was likely oil vapor from the tx (transformer).

Last I heard they were evaluating the stability of the building.

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If the explosion was great enough to move parked cars and lift up a fire truck I would say the building is very unsafe. I am surprised a explosion that violent did not bring down part of or all of the building.

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You are very correct. I ponder since every vault is vented could that have been the saving grace and reduced the back pressure slightly. Scary part is they are considering letting them move back in I have to Google and update later.

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I would not move back into that building at all. I believe the building has been weakened by the explosion. This will cause the building to fall sooner or later. I would not want to be in the building when it goes.

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Believe it or not they are letting people get some items and are saying four plus weeks before a finial answer will be given. Cause of fire still unknown, might have ben a gas then after all but I would have thought if that was the case it would have been worse. The heavy smoke clouds still make me think it was the oil.

I know a home burning produces black as ink clouds as well due to the chemical in every think we own and the oil based plastic we all love so much.

5 Alarm Blaze After Explosion

How fortunate that nobody was hurt. I wouldn't want to be going back into that building any time soon. In fact, if I lived on the same block I would go someplace else until they had resolved the exact cause. Since the explosion originated in the hydro vault I would be leary of the entire area.