# Apartment Building Explosion in California **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693 "2002-05-24T19:17:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/1 "2002-05-24T19:17:40Z")
Is it true? ---
**Author:** ![Turbo\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Turbo\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turbo_Dog)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/2 "2002-05-24T19:22:47Z")
Possibly… [http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/24/apartment.fire/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/24/apartment.fire/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/3 "2002-05-24T19:24:12Z")
Fox News Dot Com is carrying it, Encino, no fatalities, yet, some 1st abd 2nd deg burns, hit 11am PDT. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/4 "2002-05-24T19:28:37Z")
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. [http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/24/apartment.fire/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/24/apartment.fire/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![JustPlainBryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@JustPlainBryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustPlainBryan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/5 "2002-05-24T19:33:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/6 "2002-05-24T19:35:09Z")
For the sake of jittery Americans, I really hope it was a meth lab explosion or a gas leak. ---
**Author:** ![Sinyster1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Sinyster1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinyster1)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/7 "2002-05-24T20:12:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/8 "2002-05-24T20:24:14Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/05/24/apartment.fire/index.html](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’. ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/9 "2002-05-24T20:29:20Z")
I hope its just your garden variety explosion. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/10 "2002-05-25T04:36:40Z")
I head an eyewitness interviewed on TV, she said the smoke smelled like chemicals, not gas. I have yet to hear the evening news. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apartment-building-explosion-in-california/110693/11 "2002-05-25T06:19:06Z")
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. 😉