Category Pipeline Alert

State Of Emergency Declared Due To Oil Spillage Of 250,000 gallons In Alabama and Georgia, USA

At least 250,000 gallons of gasoline have spilled following a pipeline rupture in central Alabama. Emergency responders are working to repair the spill, while Alabama and Georgia have declared a state of emergency due to possible fuel shortages.   The…

Massive Sinkhole Engulfs An Embankment Sending Many Cars Plummeting In Italy

Photo By VIGILI DEL FUOCO Florence’s Mayor Dario Nardella tweeted (in Italian) that no-one had been harmed in the incident on Lungarno Torrigiani.   He appealed to motorists to remove their cars from the nearby area, and said the water…

Massive Gas Explosion Destroys Six Townhouses in Columbia, Maryland, USA

Six townhouses in Maryland have been wrecked by a suspected gas explosion which triggered a large fire.   Maria Hogg, of the Howard County Fire Department, said the blast was so powerful workers were pulling debris from nearby trees in…

Gas explosion rocks plant at Kings Valley Agronomy, Wisconsin, USA

An explosion occurred Tuesday at Kings Valley Agronomy, according Nels Gunderson, with the Osseo Rural Fire Department.   EMS Captain of the Osseo Rural Fire Department Kirk Gunderson said two installers were injured, and were airlifted to area hospitals. He…

Major landslide knocks out water main leaving 44,000 without water in Malaysia

A landslide on Jalan Lebuh Putra, Kulai, Johor, has left 44,000 people without water for four days, according to a report on The Star Online.   “My whole family was forced to take showers at different mosques,” said housewife Khairunazrifah…

Huge gas pipeline explosion rocks southeast of Emerson, Canada

Jeff French captured a pipeline fire at a TransCanada natural gas pipeline station in Kittson County, Minn. Residents in two homes in Emerson, MB were evacuated after a natural gas pipeline explosion filled the sky with flames Saturday night.  …