Incidents
In August 1959 the Kansas City Fire Department was hit with their largest loss of life in the line of duty deaths to date, when a 94,653.3 litres (25,000 gallon) gas tank exploded during a fire on Southwest Boulevard killing five firefighters. This was the first time BLEVE was used to describe a burning fuel tank. Significant industrial BLEVEs include accidents at Sunray, Texas in 1956, Glasgow, Scotland in 1960 at Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire, Feyzin, France in 1966; Crescent City, Illinois in 1970; Kingman, Arizona in 1973; Texas City, Texas in 1978; Murdock, Illinois in 1983; and San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City in 1984. In 11 July 1978, a BLEVE occurred with an ethylene tank truck in the Los Alfaques Disaster in Spain. In 2010 in Bialystok in Poland fire after train crash caused two explosions of two tank wagons with diesel fuel. In the Columbine High School massacre, if the two propane tank bombs planted by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had successfully detonated, the result would have been a BLEVE explosion.
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—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)