Is it true?
Fox News Dot Com is carrying it, Encino, no fatalities, yet, some 1st abd 2nd deg burns, hit 11am PDT.
Just read a CNN article about it.
says ‘fire’ and people heard a bang. Doesn’t necessarily mean car /person bomb. Gas lines explode etc.
You evil wicked person! I started the same thread 3 minutes too late! Gaaahhhhh!!! The slow Straightdope servers have foiled me again!
Like I was saying in the other thread., I hope this isn’t what I think it is. I really really hope this is a gas leak explosion.
For the sake of jittery Americans, I really hope it was a meth lab explosion or a gas leak.
The FBI has issued warnings that apartment buildings are a target of future terrorist attacks. Man I wish I hadn’t signed another lease on my apartment. I can’t find anything about the report, if it was an accident or an attack.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/24/apartment.fire/index.html
they’re saying ‘no indication that it’s terrorists’ but because of recent warnings, the FBI is checking, too, preliminary guesses are ‘natural gas explosion’.
I hope its just your garden variety explosion.
I head an eyewitness interviewed on TV, she said the smoke smelled like chemicals, not gas. I have yet to hear the evening news.
The FOX article mentions that the complex is home to a large population of elderly people, so I’'m betting on someone smoking with an oxygen tank or a meth lab…old people are devious. 