Update-LAPD Reporting Additional Explosions in CA(according to FOX News)

FOXNews | 05/24/02 | FOXNews

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

FOX News Alert just moments ago. Whole place was in flames!

[Poohbah]

I can't see a crank lab in a densely populated neighborhood, although you can't underestimate the idiocy of criminals. When you cook meth it makes a huge stink. I live in the crank lab capital of the U.S., the San Joaquin valley and have had numerous labs busted within a ten mile radius. Rural areas are prefered because of the distance between homes, vacant farm houses, and sparse law enforcement.

There have been some of the damndest home-brewed HVAC installations here in San Diego to divert the odor. If the criminals had applied their engineering smarts to legit work, they'd probably have made more money.

[Bernard Marx]

I posted before yours came up. My comment about there being no end of selfish fools still mostly applies -- just edit it to "fools."

[McGruff]

Some local resident speculating that it was someone cooking with a gas grill inside their apartment.

Says he can smell mild gas odor.

Coud be BS.

Fox trying to find out ethnic origin of the community.

[lentulusgracchus]

Recently a small one-story house (in a community near where I live) was scattered over a half mile area from a natural gas explostion. BIG boom and nothing was left standing.

Ten years ago a natural-gas storage facility began leaking in the wee hours of the morning, about thirty miles from here. About 7 a.m. a car finally came by that ignited the mist that had settled over everything. The car was crushed and its occupants killed instantly, and my 12-story office building 30 miles away swayed back and forth a couple of feet when the shockwave finally arrived, two and a half minutes later......early arrival in the office next to mine said he could hear my office chair rolling back and forth and bumping into things. The boss, coming up the elevator, got bounced back and forth in the elevator shaft -- he thought the elevator was about to drop, scared him silly. Don't underestimate the power of an air-fuel explosion: after fusion and fission, it's the third most powerful we know about.

[SunnyUsa]

"He apparently knew because he went to Europe and because he has't immediately returned"

hahaha...and where's Ashcroft - why isn't he in ENCINO today? hmmmmmmmm

[Joe Hadenuf]

Naw, most of the labs are in very remote areas nowdays. Not to much of a chance of that.

[godghelpus]

Commercial gas supply is 3-5psi... residential is way below 1 psi

[B Knotts]

Maybe it was a meth lab?

That was my first thought. Terrorism didn't even enter my mind until I saw it suggested here.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Fox still saying the LAFD is reporting small explosions in the past few minutes.

[SunnyUsa]

"Fox trying to find out ethnic origin of the community."

yes, I heard the caller, and he said the neighborhood is Jews and Arabs.....

[CELTICGAEL (Celt)]

I know very large. I'm not an expert, but when I first turned to my TV my first thought was the recent warning and how this looked like a bomb.

[godghelpus]

The smell in NG is an odorant that is added... NG has no smell naturally

[Dog]

Ok ...would a natural gas leak 1 psi.... cause this damage??

[katana]

someone was barbaquing inside the apartment with a gas grill

and this year's Darwin Award goes to ......

[bandlength]

yeah. that would only work if you were going after "affordable housing." (a.k.a welfare recipients)

[cgk]

I just don't like people getting dissed ....just voicing their opinion..

It seems to happen all the time anymore. Just people desperate to how how much smarter they are than everyone else. Pathetic, really.

[shadowman99]

"Ten years ago a natural-gas storage facility began leaking in the wee hours of the morning, about thirty miles from here..."

Holy Crap! Where did that happen?

[Free Trapper]

Minor explosions could even be aerosol cans cooking off.