Kentucky gas explosion results in one casualty, damage to several homes
Friday, August 2, 2019
A gas line explosion in a residential community in rural Kentucky killed on person and set several houses on fire early Thursday morning, according to Reuters.
Flames from the blast rose about 300 feet in the air, Lexington television station WKYT reported. The woman killed in the explosion was found outside her home, according to a statement from local law enforcement. The blast also caught about five homes on fire.
The pipeline involved in the explosion is part of Enbridge’s Texas Eastern system. Prior to the explosion about 1.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) of gas were moving south through the area from the Marcellus and Utica shale in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia toward the Gulf Coast, according to Reuters.
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