Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-01 - Underground electrical fire hits Wichita (Kansas), blackouts ensue:
http://wichita.gotnewswire.com/news/underground-fire-causes-power-outage-in-northwest-wichita
http://ksn.com/2015/01/01/underground-fire-causes-power-outage-in-northwest-wichita/
Note: Also see the firefighter who went into cardiac arrest on this day while fighting a fire in Wichita...
2015-01-01 - Underground electrical explosion blows manhole open in coastal Wellington (New Zealand):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/64589843/Electrical-fault-blows-open-manhole
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/01/01/Electrical_fault_blows_open_manhole/
2015-01-01 - Underground parking garage goes up in flames, 10 cars burn, at apartments in Stuttgart (Germany), 40 injured:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/europe/europe/2015-01/01/c_133891892.htm
http://news.newsdirectory1.com/about-40-injured-in-fire-in-stuttgart-underground/
http://ww.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/42-65732478/fire-in-underground-parking-lot
Quote: "According to first investigations, two motorcycles in the garage went up in flames and set cars on fire."
Quote: "About 40 people were injured on Thursday when a big fire broke out in German city Stuttgart, according to German media Focus. The incident took place in an underground parking garage of an apartment building on the morning of New Year's Day. Dense smoke rose through open doors and spread to other areas of the building, local police told media."
Quote: "A firefighter extinguishes a fire in an underground parking lot in Stuttgart, Germany, in the early morning hours of 01 January 2015. 40 people were injured, at least ten cars burned, and 160 emergency personnel were at the scene."
Note: More underground fires occurring. Hydrogen sulfide is a heavier-than-air gas so it will seek out low-lying areas. It's also reactive with copper, especially electrified copper, and rusty iron/steel, both likely to be found in underground facilities. These types of fires have really escalated, especially in the past year, as the atmospheric contamination has intensified. And just as this problem was worse in 2014 than in 2013, it will be worse yet in 2015, and so on. There's no real limit to how bad this problem will get, except that once every vehicle has been destroyed and there's no electricity anywhere then these events will cease and the problem will be 'solved'...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-02 - Underground fire breaks out in Chester (Britain), two blocks from the River Dee:
http://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/news-events/incidents/fire-in-man-hole-in-chester
http://www.newsnorthwest.org.uk/news/fire-in-man-hole-in-chester
Note: And the day prior, an underground electrical fire broke out in Wichita (Kansas), an underground electrical explosion blew off a manhole in coastal Wellington (New Zealand), and an underground parking garage went up in flames and injured 40 people in Stuttgart (Germany), all three events mentioned in the 2015-01-01 update...
2015-01-02 - Electrical substation goes up in flames in Rhone (France), 14,000 homes go dark:
http://www.transformers-magazine.com/component/k2/item/1617-transformer-fire-left-thousands-without-power-in-rhone.html
http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone/2014/12/18/le-transformateur-erdf-prend-feu-14-000-clients-prives-d-electricite
Note: A home exploded and burned at 3:15 AM the day prior in Roubaix (France), injuring 1 person, mentioned in the 2015-01-01 update...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-03 - Huge wildfires rage out of control in South Australia, 26+ homes destroyed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=WF-20150102-46527-AUS
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/04/south-australia-bushfires-homes-lost-strong-winds-fan-blaze
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/videos/news/australia-fire-destroys-dozens-of-homes/vC8jM9/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/thousands-flee-as-wildfires-rage-30879414.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/03/australia-wildfires/21223787/
http://www.smh.com.au/national/five-homes-destroyed-in-south-australia-fires-20150103-12h9o9.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-03/tough-conditions-expected-for-firefighters-in-sa-vic/5998194
http://www.dw.de/thousands-flee-homes-as-bushfires-rage-in-southern-australia/a-18168503
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/fragment/homes-destroyed-adelaide-hills-bushfire
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/us/australia-fire-destroys-dozens-of-homes/vp-BBhtyai
http://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/south-australia-bushfires-more-than-800-firefighters-tackle-blaze-as-mercury-rises/story-fnj4ag6f-1227173256782
Quote: "The Adelaide Hills is braced for a fourth day of the worst bushfires South Australia has endured in 30 years."
Quote: "The latest update from authorities this afternoon has confirmed 26 homes have been destroyed in the fire, which is the worst since the Ash Wednesday blaze in 1983 which killed 28 people."
Note: Watch the US West Coast in the coming year. It's likely to be a lot like Australia. The Bureau of Land Management is already hiring firefighters for the coming fire season in preparation. They know what's coming and how bad it's going to be...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-04 - Mysterious explosion, flash of light, rattles people across broad swath of Indiana:
http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/did-you-hear-that-weekend-explosion-jet-engine-noises-a-mystery/30542250
Quote: "People from Warsaw and even into Central Indiana to Nappanee, South Bend and as far north as Muskegon reported feeling and hearing it. Some even said they saw a flash of light in the sky."
2015-01-04 - Mysterious explosion shakes homes and rattles people in Lake Township, Luzerne County (Pennsylvania):
http://wnep.com/2015/01/01/mysterious-boom-in-luzerne-county/
http://www.pahomepage.com/story/d/story/the-big-bang-in-luzerne-county/13313/OzbqP7GyCEiS5sI5zDVrCw
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2266&category=Environment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gR8kCG1Leo&feature=youtu.be
Quote: "WNEP and PaHomePage.com reported that 'police and emergency officials say several fire departments were dispatched to try to locate what caused the boom in the back mountain, but they had no luck locating it. They couldn't find any damage either.'"
2015-01-04 - Mysterious explosions regularly scaring people in Braunschweig (Germany):
http://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/lokales/Braunschweig/ist-es-eine-explosion-mysterioeser-knall-gibt-raetsel-auf-id1720309.html
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/lokales/Braunschweig/ist-es-eine-explosion-mysterioeser-knall-gibt-raetsel-auf-id1720309.html&prev=search
Quote: "Braunschweig are troubled: A mysterious blast every night - and no one knows where he comes from. The police have no explanation for it."
2015-01-04 - Several other mysterious explosions shake homes in a variety of places:
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=2267&category=Environment
Note: Responders just trained to deal with the aftermath of a 10-kiloton explosion in coastal New York City, not far from the 2.5 gigaton methane clathrate deposit that's dissociating (melting) off the US East Coast, mentioned in the 2014-10-22 update. There's enough explosive force in just that ONE deposit to cause a quarter of a million 10-kiloton explosions. 'Coincidentally', 10 kilotons is about the maximum explosive force of a large gas plume exploding. The estimates for such an explosion in Manhattan were for around 100,000 people instantly killed. More methane and hydrogen sulfide entering the atmosphere, more fires and explosions, it's as simple as that. It looks like we're getting scarily close to the entire-cities-exploding stage now.
2015-01-04 - Underground explosions and fire rock coastal Red Bank (New Jersey), some people evacuated:
http://patch.com/new-jersey/redbank/power-restored-after-explosions-red-bank
http://www.redbankgreen.com/2015/01/red-bank-electrical-explosions.html
http://www.app.com/story/news/local/monmouth-county/2015/01/04/manholes-explode-broad-street-red-bank/21267425/
http://www.app.com/story/news/local/red-bank-middletown-area/red-bank/2015/01/05/red-bank-manhole-incident-left-dark/21304217/
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/04/electrical-fires-cause-manholes-to-pop-off-power-outages-in-red-bank/
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf/2015/01/underground_explosions_force_evacuations_in_downtown_red_bank.html
http://jerseytribune.com/2015/01/04/underground-explosions-force-evacuations-in-downtown-red-bank/
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2015/01/04/3951732/underground-explosions-spur-evacuations.html?sp=/99/103/
http://www.wopular.com/underground-explosions-spur-evacuations
http://omnifeed.com/article/newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/01/04/electrical-fires-cause-manholes-to-pop-off-power-outages-in-red-bank/
Quote: "Police and Fire departments responded to Broad St. in Red Bank after underground power lines caught fire, causing manholes and metal vaults to explode into the air on Sunday afternoon. As a result, there were reports of heavy smoke and power outages in the area according to Red Bank Fire Chief Joe Lauterwasser. Red Bank Catholic and St. James schools are closed Monday because of the electrical issues related to the manhole explosions."
2015-01-04 - Underground electrical explosions hit Columbus (Ohio):
http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/768139/Small-underground-explosions-in-downtown-Columbus.html?isap=1&nav=5015
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/768139/Small-underground-explosions-in-downtown-Columbus.html?isap=1&nav=536
http://hosted2.ap.org/OHWAS/57e5f08e769e4fc08f616ff910ed76e6/Article_2015-01-04-OH--Underground%20Explosions-Columbus/id-03fa0680283f4e2481bcd44a791574ef
Note: Gettin' pretty crazy with all the underground explosions and fires in the last year. The most devastating such event so far was when the sewer system exploded and burned at midnight in Kaohsiung on the island of Taiwan, ripping open entire streets and killing at least 24 people and injuring at least 270 people, mentioned in the 2014-07-31 update...
Category: Corpses
2015-01-05 - Two college students found foaming at the mouth, one of them dead, in Muchipara (India):
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/presidency-girl-found-dead-in-pg-cops-suspect-drug-overdose/
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/kolkata/presi-girl-dies-in-pg-drug-overdose-suspected/article1-1303402.aspx
Quote: "Police sources said no suspicious item was found in the room. 'After preliminary investigation we can say that since the room was shut from inside, involvement of external elements can be ruled out. The most probable possibilities are drug overdose or food poisoning,' said D P Singh, DC (Central)."
Quote: "Subarna, however, denied having consumed any narcotic substances, said a police official. She told the police that around midnight, she had seen Sumantika working on her laptop. At 8 am, she had seen Sumantika sleeping. The next she woke up, Subarna found herself at the hospital."
Note: Very likely hydrogen sulfide poisoning. Quite a number of people have died foaming at the mouth in recent years. The most recent such event was a 14-year-old girl who foamed at the mouth, collapsed and died at home in Tshepisong (South Africa), mentioned in the 2015-01-02 update. A boy, 17, foamed at the mouth, had a seizure and died, at a school in Augusta (Georgia), mentioned in the 2014-12-13 update. Three high school students collapsed to the ground with seizures and foaming at the mouth in El Paso (Texas), near the Rio Grande, mentioned in the 2013-06-04 update. A family of five were found dead at home, foaming from the mouth, in coastal Karachi (Pakistan), mentioned in the 2013-12-09 update. A man and his son were found dead, foaming at the mouth, in an apartment in Ghaziabad (India), mentioned in the 2014-08-29 update. Two young lawyers, both men, died foaming at the mouth in their car in Asaba (Nigeria), mentioned in the 2013-12-12 update. A young couple, 23 and 19, were found dead in bed, one of them foaming at the mouth, at home in Searcy (Arkansas), mentioned in the 2012-08-27 update. And so on and so on. That's not counting all the animals that have been found mysteriously dead and foaming at the mouth. Events with people mysteriously dying after foaming at the mouth are on the rise, as predicted. This problem will get worse, much much worse. That said, most people will simply drop dead, as has been happening for some time and in the expected places: near low-lying areas, especially bodies of water, but also basements, parking garages, valleys, canyons, ravines, ditches, etc...
Category: Variety Pack
2015-01-06 - Mobile home explodes and burns just after 4 AM near Sugar Grove (Ohio), 5 killed, 2 injured:
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2015/01/911_calls_reporter_explosion_a.html
http://sunny95.com/news/061160-explosion-reported-at-scene-of-fatal-fire/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dead-hurt-trailer-home-fire-collapse-se-ohio-28025375
http://www.daytondailynews.com/ap/ap/ohio/4-dead-2-hurt-after-trailer-home-fire-collapse-in-/njg43/
http://www.wlwt.com/news/4-dead-2-hurt-after-se-ohio-trailer-home-fire/30553160
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/01/06/sheriff-office-4-killed-2-hurt-in-southeast-ohio-trailer-fire-toddler-among/
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/01/toddler_among_four_people_kill.html
Quote: "Neighbors calling 911 reported hearing an explosion just after 4 a.m. Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen said those reports were under investigation, and the cause of the fire was unknown. 'Oh my God! ... The trailer across the road just blew up,' reported the first caller, whose name wasn't included in an audio recording released by the sheriff's office. 'I'm going to say they're probably all there. Oh my Lord! Something just blew up over there. Holy crap!'"
Quote: "The fire was the third multiple-death home fire in Ohio in less than four weeks. Three children were killed in a Dec. 12 house fire in Hamilton in southwest Ohio, and a woman and three grandchildren were killed Dec. 26 in a fire near Washington Court House, about 40 miles southwest of Columbus."
2015-01-06 - Boat explodes and burns at Lake Nagambie (Australia), 7 injured:
http://trendingnewsz.com/six-children-caught-in-boat-explosion-at-nagambie
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/six-children-caught-in-boat-explosion-at-nagambie-20150106-12iqgx.html
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2015/01/06/seven-injured-in-boat-explosion.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4C0eMnBOyg
Quote: "Six children have been badly injured and a man has suffered serious burns after their boat exploded into flames amidst holiday celebrations at Lake Nagambie. Nearby holidayers waded through heavy smoke to pull the screaming children from the boat to safety."
2015-01-06 - Underground electrical fire erupts at Dupont Circle in coastal Washington DC, thousands of homes go dark:
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2015/01/dozens-still-without-power-after-dupont-circle-power-outage-110368.html
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Thousands-Without-Power-in-Dupont-Circle-287686251.html
http://dc.suntimes.com/dc-news/7/82/68512/dozens-still-without-power-after-underground-fire-causes-dupont-circle-power-outage/
Quote: "Shomari Stone reports on a manhole fire that has caused thousands to lose power near Dupont Circle."
2015-01-06 - Pallet business devastated by huge inferno in Springfield (Ohio):
http://www.whio.com/gallery/news/local/gallery-tri-state-pallet-fire-aftermath/gCQPT/
http://www.whio.com/news/news/local/springfield-firefighters-battle-four-alarm-fire/njhQM/
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/news/local/springfield-firefighters-battle-four-alarm-fire/njhQM/
http://www.whio.com/videos/news/five-alarm-fire-in-springfield/vC87ZZ/
http://wdtn.com/2015/01/06/massive-industrial-fire-burns-in-springfield/
http://www.whio.com/gallery/news/local/tri-state-pallett-fire/gCQN3/
http://www.abc22now.com/shared/news/top-stories/stories/wkef_new-tonight-industrial-plant-caught-fire-24135.shtml
http://www.wopular.com/springfield-firefighters-battle-five-alarm-fire
Quote: "Springfield Assistant Fire Chief Rodney Rahrle confirms the fire is at Tri-State Pallet, an industrial complex at Monroe and Gallagher streets. It started shortly after 6:30 p.m. and was still burning after 8:30 p.m. Rahrle said crews were trying to keep flames from spreading to a nearby building just east of the fire that was full of tires."
2015-01-06 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire, scrap cars burn, in coastal Invercargill (New Zealand):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/64710248/Fire-burns-cars-at-wreckers
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/wreckers-yard-fire-under-control-after-cars-explode-6215287
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/263156/invercargill-fire-has-toxic-fumes
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/64707746/invercargill-car-wreckers-on-fire
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/cars-explode-in-fire-wreckers-yard-6215287
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11382661
Quote: "He said he got a call about the fire about an hour ago. 'It was quite big, they're getting it down now but the whole thing every now and then just keeps getting out of hand, there's just about a thousand cars probably.' The authorities are warning the public to stay away because the fire is billowing toxic fumes and there could be LPG cylinders in the yard which could explode."
2015-01-06 - RV bursts into flame while parked at home in Scott, Lafayette (Louisiana):
http://klfy.com/2015/01/06/motor-home-fire-in-scott/
http://www.koaa.com/story/27768556/camper-catches-fire-in-scott
http://www.katc.com/story/27768556/camper-catches-fire-in-scott
http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2015/01/06/scott-vol-firefights-prevent-spread-of-rv-fire/21332281/
Quote: "According to the Scott firefighters, the 40 foot motor home was fully engulfed in flames, parked 6 feet from a home and three feet from a semi-tractor trailer."
Note: This is the 7th RV to burn in 2015...
2015-01-06 - Driver, man, 30, has heart attack and dies, school bus hits second school bus, in Rochester (New York), 1 killed, 9 injured:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VI-20150107-46574-USA
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/dead-hurt-school-buses-collide-rochester-28024213
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/01/06/5428525/1-dead-several-hurt-after-school.html
http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/new-york/2015/01/06/dead-kids-hurt-school-buses-collide-rochester/21356815/
Quote: "The driver of a bus taking students to a Rochester elementary school Tuesday morning apparently suffered a heart attack before the vehicle collided with another school bus and a tree, sending eight students and another adult to the hospital..."
2015-01-06 - Man dies when RV trailer bursts into flame shortly before midnight in coastal Augusta (Australia):
http://www.busseltonmail.com.au/story/2802612/fatality-in-augusta-caravan-fire/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/25921374/man-dies-in-caravan-fire/
http://www.onenewspage.com/n/Australia/754uw38b0/Man-dies-in-Augusta-caravan-fire.htm
http://dailymail.org.uk/news/5688777/Man-dies-in-Augusta-caravan-fire.html
http://www.news.nom.co/man-dies-in-augusta-caravan-fire-14609780-news/
2015-01-06 - Man, 18, screams, yells incoherently, foams at the mouth, gets tased, later dies, in coastal Key Largo (Florida):
http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2015/01/key_largo_teenager_dies_after_new_years_day_tasering.php
http://www.keysnet.com/2015/01/06/500606/teen-shot-by-deputys-taser-taken.html
Quote: "He said medical staff told him they did not find any traces of drugs in Roberto’s system yet, but there are so many new illicit drugs on the market that tests often don’t detect them."
Quote: "Cross wrote in his report that Roberto 'was sweating profusely, his eyes were wide open with a blank stare as if staring through you and was foaming around his mouth and nose area.'"
Note: They're not looking for hydrogen sulfide, so they won't find that, although it is a drug in the sense that it's a mind-altering chemical, which actually is 'huffed' in some poverty-stricken areas around the world (which is insane). It also breaks down within hours within the body anyway, so it's far too late to find it now even if they wanted to look. If they looked carefully, however, they might see the damage to his brain and possibly other organs too, as hydrogen sulfide is a broad-spectrum poison which affects all systems in the body but particularly the neurology. Hydrogen sulfide can also heat you up, thus the rise in incidents involving people going crazy and getting naked, even in the depths of winter.
This event sounds somewhat similar to the original face-eater incident, which happened in 2012 on the MacArthur Causeway over the ocean, about 50 miles from Key Largo, and no drugs were found in his system either. A foul stench blew through coastal Santa Rosa on the Florida Panhandle in December 2014 too, mentioned in the 2014-12-14 update. Florida is downwind of the Gulf of Mexico, North America's sewer, so there will be many incidents such as this in Florida, to go along with all the people and animals mysteriously dropping dead in Florida.
Two college students, young women, were just found in their dorm room, foaming at the mouth, one of them dead and the other survived but experienced a bit of memory loss, in Muchipara (India), mentioned in the 2015-01-05 update. India is basically a country-sized version of Florida, a peninsula surrounded by the ocean on three sides.
2015-01-06 - Sulfurous 'rotten egg' odor and fog hits coastal Seattle (Washington) and surrounding areas:
http://mynorthwest.com/11/2684101/Why-Seattle-was-so-stinky-Tuesday-night
http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/2rlw3b/why_does_queen_annelower_queen_anne_smell_like/
Quote: "It smells horrible, like garbage/rotten eggs."
Quote: "Capitol hill has smelled like sewage for at least the last hour."
Note: They didn't tell anyone to shelter-in-place, and nobody was seen wearing gas masks this time, so this particular cloud of hydrogen sulfide was apparently not as concentrated as the cloud that hit Moscow recently, mentioned in the 2014-11-10 update. And this cloud was way less concentrated than the cloud of 'toxic gas of unknown origin' that hit coastal Rayong (Indonesia), sending thousands of people puking and fleeing their homes in the middle of the night, mentioned in the 2014-06-08 update. And there was also the foul stench that just blew through coastal Santa Rosa (Florida) recently, mentioned in the 2014-12-14 update. And so on. There will be more clouds, and they will become larger and more concentrated as time goes on. The first cloud that's 0.1% hydrogen sulfide will kill pretty much everyone in whichever city it happens to hit, and that's most likely to be a coastal city, like Rayong or Santa Rosa or Seattle.
The above events provide a general overview of the types of events that are now happening regularly and with increasing frequency: another home exploding and burning in the wee hours and killing a bunch of people, another boat exploding and injuring people, another underground electrical fire, another gigantic fire at a pallet business, another auto salvage yard going up in flames, another parked vehicle bursting into flame at a home, another driver collapsing dead at the wheel and crashing, another person burning to death when a vehicle ignites, another man with no drugs in his system going crazy and dying shortly later on the coast in Florida, and another coastal area being hit by 'rotten egg' odor. Expect to see a whole lot more of all of these types of events as time goes on and the atmospheric contamination problem continues to intensify.
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-07 - Woman killed and husband injured when car bursts into flame while parked near hospital in Frisco (Texas):
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Frisco-Vehicle-Fire-Kills-Woman-Injures-Husband-287871971.html
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local/collin-county/2015/01/07/car-fire-kills-frisco-woman-injures-husband/21418285/
http://friscoblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/vehicle-fire-in-frisco-kills-woman-leaves-husband-critically-injured.html/
http://starlocalmedia.com/friscoenterprise/news/vehicle-fire-in-frisco-results-in-fatality/article_ad3799fc-96c6-11e4-8f8d-87650eaa3d13.html
http://www.frisco-online.com/frisco-news/city-news/city-news/5849-vehicle-fire-results-in-fatality-another-critically-injured-cause-of-fire-under-investigation
Quote: "A news release from the city said the vehicle was parked in a driveway near the Baylor Medical Center at Frisco on Warren Parkway when firefighters were summoned at 1:17 p.m. They found the car engulfed in 'heavy' flames with the Frisco couple inside."
Quote: "Property records show the couple has owned their home in the Frisco Lakes community since 2006."
Note: A man was just killed the day prior when his RV trailer went up in flames shortly before midnight in coastal Augusta (Australia), mentioned in the 2015-01-06 update. The day before that, a person was killed when their car burst into flame at 4:30 AM on the Currumbin Creek Bridge (Australia), mentioned in the 2015-01-06 update. And so on. From the full hypothesis: "Vehicles of all kinds will continue to burn, as they have been, and the number of vehicular fires will continue to escalate, inevitably resulting in a corresponding increase in the number of people being incinerated in their vehicles."
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-08 - Mysterious explosion shakes buildings and rattles people in coastal Marseille (France):
http://www.metronews.fr/marseille/le-mystere-reste-entier-sur-le-bruit-d-une-explosion-au-sud-de-marseille/moai!NpxIZCWpur1qQ/
http://www.metronews.fr/marseille/mysterieuse-explosion-dans-les-quartiers-sud-de-marseille/moah!CRjYgdUHoe0eU/
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.metronews.fr/marseille/mysterieuse-explosion-dans-les-quartiers-sud-de-marseille/moah!CRjYgdUHoe0eU/&prev=search
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.metronews.fr/marseille/le-mystere-reste-entier-sur-le-bruit-d-une-explosion-au-sud-de-marseille/moai!NpxIZCWpur1qQ/&prev=search
Quote: "I was outside and suddenly there was a loud noise like an explosion, testifies Charlotte who works at the Sainte-Marguerite Hospital. It only lasted a few seconds but it was impressive. Colleagues have even told me they saw the buildings windows move..."
Quote: "Police patrols were sent there to try to understand this phenomenon. In vain the moment. 'No material damage was found,' said the prefecture. The Strasbourg National Seismological Centre has even been consulted to see if there is an earthquake. But no seismic activity has been recorded accurately scientists."
Quote: "No damage, no smoke, nor any explanation. For now, the mystery remains on the sound of explosion heard and felt on Thursday afternoon in southern Marseille . At 14:30 on Thursday, the detonation even vibrates the windows of some buildings provide several witnesses. Strangest inhabitants of Sanary-sur-Mer, 50 kilometers from Marseille claimed to have heard this big 'boom'. Same story off Cassis. The area, scene of the event, would therefore be on a coastline of over 50 km."
2015-01-08 - Underground electrical explosion blows manhole into car, car crashes, in Van Nuys area of coastal Los Angeles (California):
http://abc7.com/news/underground-vault-explosion-reportedly-causes-car-crash-in-van-nuys/467375/
Quote: "Eyewitness News viewer Phillip Castro said a sudden explosion pushed a manhole cover into the bottom of a Toyota Prius and caused the car to fly about 5 to 6 feet in the air. 'It was a really violent crash. The back of his car went airborne and came crashing down,' Castro said."
Quote: "The driver of the Prius said all he remembers is waking up about 20 minutes after the blast lying on the street and seeing a crowd surrounding him."
2015-01-08 - Underground electrical fire breaks out on High Street in Saffron Walden (Britain):
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Underground-cables-catch-High-Street-Saffron/story-25825901-detail/story.html
http://www.newseast.org.uk/news/disruption-on-saffron-walden-high-street-following-underground-cable-fire
2015-01-08 - Transformer explodes and burns on Spruce Street in Reno (Nevada):
http://www.kenvtv.com/news/story/Spruce-Road-Transformer-Fire/m9rbOkazrEKz7FLemxBgPw.cspx
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/3470/5542824?title=fire_news
2015-01-08 - Transformer bursts into flame in Little Italy area of Chicago (Illinois), 800 homes go dark:
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/27798368/small-fire-cuts-off-power-for-800-little-italy-residents
http://www.ktvu.com/story/27798368/small-fire-cuts-off-power-for-800-little-italy-residents
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/27798368/small-fire-cuts-off-power-for-800-little-italy-residents
2015-01-08 - Electrical panel bursts into flame at business in Scottsdale (Arizona):
http://www.abc15.com/news/region-northeast-valley/scottsdale/scottsdale-building-evacuated-after-fire
2015-01-08 - Electrical room bursts into flame at apartment building in coastal New Haven (Connecticut):
http://www.wfsb.com/story/27790000/fire-cuts-power-to-apartment-building-in-new-haven
Note: Another gigantic mysterious explosion shaking homes across a broad coastal area, more underground explosions, more electrical infrastructure going up in flames...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-09 - Pallet company destroyed by explosion and huge fire shortly after 4:30 AM in Mount Airy (North Carolina):
http://triadnc.twcnews.com/content/news/all_nc_news/715720/fire-destroys-lumber-yard-in-mount-airy/
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/fire-destroys-pallet-company-in-mount-airy/article_fa35e1d6-9870-11e4-b9ca-13509cefa126.html
http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/local/2015/01/09/wfmy-mountain-pallet-lumber-fire-mt-airy/21487317/
http://www.elkintribune.com/news/news/151166284/Pine-Ridge-business-destroyed-by-early-morning-fire
http://www.mtairynews.com/news/home_top-news/51007460/Pine-Ridge-business-destroyed-by-early-morning-fire
http://www.topix.com/city/mount-airy-nc/2015/01/mountain-lumber-pallet-company-fire
http://www.wopular.com/fire-destroys-pallet-company-mount-airy
Quote: "The fire started shortly after 4:30 a.m. and was reported by someone driving past the Mountain Lumber Pallet Co. at 3583 W. Pine St., according to WGHP/FOX8, the Winston-Salem Journal’s newsgathering partner. An employee who lives next Mountain Lumber heard what sounded like an explosion and also called 911, said Doug Jones, the Surry County fire marshal."
Quote: "Crews said it is a difficult fire to fight because of icy conditions and because the buildings are full of wooden pallets."
Note: And here's yet another pallet business being destroyed by fire/explosion. Two lumber companies just went up in flames too, one at 6:23 AM on Spring Street in Mosheim (Tennessee) and one near Floodwood (Minnesota), both events mentioned in the 2015-01-07 update. A massive inferno just burned through another pallet company in Springfield (Ohio) too, mentioned in the 2015-01-06 update. From the full hypothesis: "Wood-related fires will escalate, including fires at pallet companies, wood-carving businesses, furniture businesses, door companies, cabinet companies, etc."
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-10 - Deadly fire rages through high-rise apartment building in Seoul (South Korea), started in parked motorcycle, at least 4 killed, 124 injured:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2999534&cloc=joongangdaily%7Chome%7Ctop
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150111000330
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/videos/news/four-dead-100-injured-in-seoul-apartment-building/vC9bBg/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/four-killed-and-100-injured-in-apartment-fire-north-of-south-korean-capital-9969752.html
http://www.news.nom.co/three-killed-101-injured-in-south-14687636-news/
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/01/12/2015011201022.html
Quote: "The fire initially broke out at around 9:15 a.m. Saturday in the above-ground parking lot of the 10-story Daebong Green Apartment building in downtown Uijeongbu when a motorcycle that seemed to belong to one of the residents caught on fire, the city’s fire department said. The blaze spread to other vehicles in the parking lot because of strong winds, according to the Uijeongbu fire department, burning all 12 parked cars."
Note: Basically the same as all the parked cars bursting into flame and destroying homes, except this time it was a really big home, containing a lot of people...
2015-01-10 - RV bursts into flame after 5 AM while parked at home, fire spreads to home, in coastal Gibsonton (Florida):
http://tbo.com/south-shore/fire-destroys-rv-in-gibsonton-flames-spread-to-semi-home-20150110/
http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/local/2015/01/10/fire-destroys-rv-gibsonton/21548817/
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/27816744/rv-fire-destroys-semi-damages-mobile-home
http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2015/1/10/gibsonton_rv_goes_up.html
http://tampabay.gotnewswire.com/news/rv-fire-destroys-semi-damages-mobile-home
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/9453396-rv-fire-destroys-semi-damages-mobile-home/
http://www.wopular.com/fire-destroys-rv-gibsonton-flames-spread-semi-home
Quote: "A fire destroyed a recreational vehicle in Gibsonton early Saturday and spread to an adjacent semitrailer and mobile home, officials said. The semitrailer was also destroyed and a bedroom in the mobile home was damaged, officials said. The resident of the mobile home escaped without injury and the RV was not occupied. Hillsbororough County Fire Rescue said it received a 911 call about the fire at 8803 Nundy Ave. just after 5 a.m. Crews arrived and found the RV engulfed in fire, and flames spreading to the semitrailer to the west and mobile home to east."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. This is the 10th RV to burn in 2015...
2015-01-10 - Pickup truck bursts into flame while parked in garage, fire spreads, home destroyed, in Glastonbury (Connecticut):
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Car-Fire-Spreads-to-Glastonbury-House-288147281.html
http://www.wfsb.com/story/27817680/crews-respond-to-blaze-at-glastonbury-home
http://myinforms.com/en-us/a/9462028-3-displaced-in-truck-fire-that-spread-to-house/
http://news24hours.net/news/3-displaced-in-truck-fire-that-spread-to-house
http://connecticut.citynewsline.com/news/3-displaced-in-truck-fire-that-spread-to-house
Quote: "The fire started in a truck parked in a garage and appeared to be under control before flames ripped through the adjoining house, according to Glastonbury firefighters."
Note: And here's some more parked vehicles wiping out residences and sometimes killing people. All vehicles are now randomly-igniting firebombs that can go off at any time, so it's increasingly unwise to park vehicles near anything you don't want to see on fire, especially your residence. In an apartment building you're kinda screwed though, since you can't make OTHER people not park their vehicles nearby, even if you yourself are prudent enough not to do so...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-11 - Cargo ship 'Hanyang Ace' carrying nitric acid explodes while moored near coastal Ulsan (South Korea), 4 injured:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EX-20150111-46629-KOR
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-01/11/c_133911206.htm
http://www.china.org.cn/world/2015-01/11/content_34530290.htm
http://www.fleetmon.com/newsroom/2015/6025/explosion-chemical-tanker-hanyang-ace-4-crew-hospi/
Quote: "In the afternoon of Jan 11, 2015, an explosion occurred on the cargo deck of the 'Hanyang Ace', while she was loading nitric and sulphut acid in Ulsan. At the time of an accident there were 14 crew on board, four of whom were injured in the blast and resulting gas leak."
Note: I've mentioned the nitric acid problem before with other nitric acid explosions at schools, universities, factories, metal businesses, etc. Hydrogen sulfide gas is explosively reactive with nitric acid. If any hydrogen sulfide gas blows over any exposed nitric acid then you're apt to see a fire or an explosion or both. Normally nitric acid is no great threat unless you touch it, but nowadays, as the atmosphere is increasingly contaminated with hydrogen sulfide, it's a growing explosion and fire threat. Because it's sometimes found and used in school science classes, a number of fires/explosions involving nitric acid in classrooms have burned and injured students around the world in recent times...
2015-01-11 - Boat destroyed by fire while docked at boat yard in coastal Gulf Shores (Alabama):
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/01/sunday_morning_boat_fire_demol.html
http://www.wkrg.com/story/27821983/boat-fire-in-gulf-shores
http://fox10tv.com/2015/01/11/boat-fire-in-gulf-shores/
http://www.utv44.com/shared/news/features/top-stories/stories/wpmi_boat-destroyed-fire-gulf-shores-17354.shtml
http://www.facebook.com/FOX10News/posts/10153025551288944
http://snewsi.com/id/1519873727/Boat-fire-in-Gulf-Shores
Quote: "Sunday morning a fire at Nelson Boat Yard in Gulf Shores destroyed one boat and damaged several others, according to the Gulf Shores Fire Department."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. Four boats and a dock were just destroyed at 12:15 AM at a marina in coastal Kinsale (Virginia) too, mentioned in the 2015-01-10 update. Not looking too good for boats, or any kind of vehicles for that matter. These are the 24th and 25th boats to burn in 2015. On the plus side, the fire that killed more than a dozen people on a car ferry near Italy is now out, after burning for two weeks. That event was mentioned in the 2014-12-28 update...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-12 - Smoking subway causes mass casualty incident in coastal Washington DC, 1 killed, several dozen injured:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20150113-46646-USA
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/one-dead-after-smoke-fills-washington-dc-subway
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/metro-station-evacuated-hospitalized-fire-article-1.2075245
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dc-subway-fire-leaves-one-dead-n285181
http://news.newsdirectory1.com/1-person-dies-after-smoke-empty-underground-station-dc-abc-news/
http://www.nbcwashington.com/traffic/transit/288309501.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/washington-subway-car-fills-with-smoke-leaving-1-dead-2-critically-injured-1.2898620
http://www.sott.net/article/291261-Washington-D-C-L-Enfant-plaza-metro-station-fire-leaves-one-woman-dead-and-dozens-hospitalized
http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/washington-metro-station-evacuated-because-of-smoke-20150112
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/1-dead-dozens-hurt-on-metro-car-filled-with-smoke/2015/01/12/e832c0f0-9aa8-11e4-a7ee-526210d665b4_story.html
Quote: "One person has died after smoke poured into one of Washington, D.C.'s busiest metro stations late Monday afternoon, creating what authorities described as a 'mass casualty' incident, a transportation official confirmed. Sixty-eight people were taken to area hospitals for injuries, two of which were described as critical, after a disabled train became trapped inside of L'Enfant Plaza Metro Station around 3 p.m."
Quote: "A young black man had a seizure. Thank God the firefighters had made it on to the train by then. We were trying to escape through the back..."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. Hydrogen sulfide is a heavier-than-air gas so it will tend to accumulate in low-lying areas like subways and other underground facilities. It's also reactive with copper, especially electrified copper, and rusty iron/steel, both apt to be found in such places, making fires and/or explosions more likely. And it's a neurotoxin which affects the brain (but also other organs), and can cause seizures, unconsciousness, sickness, coma, death. The fires will burn much of the gas away, but there may sometimes be some left in the smoke, which will make fires much more likely to cause casualties.
There have been a great many underground fires and explosions in recent times and especially in the past year. The most destructive underground fire/explosion so far was when the sewer system exploded at midnight in Kaohsiung on the island of Taiwan, ripping apart entire streets, killing at least 24 people and injuring hundreds more, mentioned in the 2014-07-31 update...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-13 - Underground construction site erupts in flame at 2:20 AM at Penn Station in coastal New York City (New York):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FR-20150113-46651-USA
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/f4f4f460267f4a3d925cdfba52270d08/NY--Midtown-Underground-Fire
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fire-Breaks-Out-at-Penn-Station-FDNY-288365151.html
http://newyork.gotnewswire.com/news/emergency-crews-respond-to-penn-station-fire-fdny
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fire-nycs-penn-station-control-subways-running-28186893
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/13/fire-near-penn-station-affecting-a-e-and-c-trains/
http://6abc.com/news/multi-alarm-fire-breaks-out-at-penn-station-in-ny/472904/
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/fdny-fire-near-penn-station-was-accidental
2015-01-13 - Underground electrical explosion and fire breaks out on Clarkson Avenue in coastal New York City (New York):
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2015/01/explosion-and-fire-on-clarkson.html
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. This underground fire was about 3 miles south of the Penn Station underground construction fire. Responders recently trained to deal with the aftermath of a 10-kiloton explosion in New York City, in October, mentioned in the 2014-10-22 update. That's about the maximum size of a big gas plume exploding. And right off the East Coast, a methane hydrate deposit is melting and releasing its stored methane. That deposit contains enough methane to cause a quarter of a MILLION 10-kiloton explosions, which is roughly the size of the explosion that destroyed Hiroshima...
2015-01-13 - Underground fire breaks out in subway tunnel in Chicago (Illinois), near Lake Michigan:
http://abc7chicago.com/travel/red-line-trains-resume-after-fire/473004/
2015-01-13 - Underground electrical fire erupts near St. Aldate's in Oxford (Britain), near the River Thames:
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11720921.Junction_box_on_fire_under_St_Aldates/
http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/11720921.UPDATE__19_properties_have_power_cut_after_electrical_fault_in_St_Aldate_s/
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-13 - Underground oil shale fire burns in Berea (Kentucky), blankets area with sulfurous smoke:
http://www.lex18.com/story/27842713/lex-18-investigates-kentuckys-newest-underground-fire-burning-in-berea
http://www.topix.com/forum/state/ky/THOD60T9TQUSBR6EO
Quote: "Berea residents say not enough is being done to combat an underground oil shale fire which has blanketed the area with the thick smell of sulfur. The fire has been burning for two months, and no one seems to know how to stop it or how bad the problem could become."
Quote: "However, a mile away, the impact of the smell alone is contributing to some residents packing up and leaving. 'At the end of the month, I'm actually moving south of town,' said Jennifer Marciniak. Others are concerned about what contaminants they might be breathing in, and the lack of notification about the fire from city and railroad officials. 'For weeks now, residents have been breathing in this stuff,' Strange said."
Note: And here's more underground stuff burning and/or exploding. The day prior, a subway filled with smoke, killing 1 person, sending a man into a seizure and injuring dozens in a mass-casualty incident, in coastal Washington DC, mentioned in the 2015-01-12 update...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-14 - Prison destroyed by huge fire in Sunbury (Pennsylvania), 200 inmates evacuated, reignites at 6 AM:
http://www.khq.com/story/27854902/firefighters-again-battling-flames-at-pennsylvania-prison
http://newsitem.com/update-prison-a-total-loss-flames-still-shooting-from-roof-electrical-cause-speculated-1.1817150
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-200-evacuated-from-prison-fire-20150114-story.html
http://wate.com/2015/01/15/fire-rips-through-140-year-old-pennsylvania-prison/
http://wnep.com/2015/01/14/fire-at-northumberland-county-prison/
Quote: "The prison, a stone building with castle-like parapets, was built in the late-1800s and sits a few blocks off the banks of the Susquehanna River."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-14 - Natural gas pipeline explodes and burns at 6:15 AM near Ross R. Barnett Reservoir near Brandon (Mississippi):
http://www.wect.com/story/27846604/massive-fiery-explosion-erupts-near-the-reservoir
http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/27846824/natural-gas-line-fire-in-rankin-county
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/27846604/massive-fiery-explosion-erupts-near-the-reservoir
http://www.weather.com/news/news/natural-gas-pipeline-explosion-mississippi
http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/gas-line-explodes-burns-at-reservoir/30695664
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/01/14/reservoir-explosion/21740325/
http://rt.com/news/222595-blast-pipeline-reservoir-mississippi/
Quote: "An explosion near the Barnett Reservoir lit up the skies Wednesday morning. It erupted around 6:20, off of Three Prong Trail. That's east of the Reservoir."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-15 - Underground electrical explosion and fire blows manhole off, almost hits lady, in Doncaster (Britain), near the River Don:
http://sheffieldinnews.com/video-power-outage-on-town-centre-street-after-electrical-explosion/
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/video-businesses-hit-by-town-centre-explosion-1-7052683
http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/news/local/video-businesses-hit-by-town-centre-explosion-1-7052683
http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/video-businesses-hit-by-town-centre-explosion-1-7052683
Quote: "He said: 'I saw a flash and smoke coming out of the ground. There was no indication of how it had happened. It blew a man hole cover off and it nearly hit an old lady. She was very shaken up – she just said "it nearly hit me". My first thought was to get out of there. It was quite scary.'"
2015-01-15 - Underground electrical explosion and fire damages home in Basford, Nottinghamshire (Britain):
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Big-bang-heard-Basford-suspected-electrical/story-25862824-detail/story.html
http://www.nottinghampost.com/Explosion-outside-Basford-house-felt-end-street/story-25864081-detail/story.html
Quote: "Zoe Smith, 27, who lives a few doors away from where the explosion happened, said: 'I went shopping two minutes before it happened and I came home and went into my house and heard a big explosion. All the electricity cut off so I came outside and I saw the pavement had just exploded up from the ground. It was mad and there were massive flames - about seven foot high. I have never seen anything like it.'"
2015-01-15 - Underground carpark erupts in flame just after midnight at mall in coastal Wellington (New Zealand):
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/wellington-mall-blaze-treated-suspicious-6218486
Quote: "No one was in the building at the time of the fire. The cause of the fire is still unknown, but Karori Fire Station Officer Nic Bush says the fire is believed to be suspicious."
Note: Heh, no clue how it started, and nobody was around, so it's suspicious! Looks like their fire investigators aren't paying a whole lot of attention to Planet Earth in the last coupla few years. An underground carpark just went up in flames the day prior in coastal Miami (Australia), mentioned in the 2015-01-14 update...
2015-01-15 - Small plane bursts into flame at Kendall Tamiami Airport near coastal Miami (Florida):
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/01/15/small-plane-catches-fire-at-tamiami-airport/
Quote: "A small plane caught fire on Thursday at Kendall Tamiami Executive Airport. Miami-Dade Fire crews responded to reports of a 20 to 30 foot plane on fire at the aviation school."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. This is the 7th aircraft to smoke or burn in 2015...
2015-01-15 - Dozens of yachts and boats destroyed by fire before 5 AM at marina in Wessem (Netherlands):
http://www.nltimes.nl/2015/01/15/massive-limburg-harbour-fire-destroys-multiple-luxury-yachts/
http://www.epa.eu/disasters-photos/fire-photos/marina-blaze-photos-51737935
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/firemen-put-out-a-fire-in-a-marina-in-wessem-on-january-15-news-photo/461568426
https://www.google.com/maps/place/6019+Wessem,+Netherlands/@51.1617355,5.8759725,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x47c0ca8be0b5e813:0x5be7028aeddb31d5
Quote: "A large fire broke out at the Comfortparc marina in Wessem, Limburg at 4:30 a.m. Thursday destroying a few dozen luxury yachts and houseboats. The burnt down ships are beyond repair and considered lost, reports 1limburg on their webpage."
Note: Dozens, plural, so I'll call it 24 boats to be conservative. Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-15 - Boat explodes, burns and sinks on the Oubangui River near Bangui (Central African Republic), 100 feared dead:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VI-20150115-46681-CAF
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/15/central-african-republic-boat-fire-sinks
http://news.yahoo.com/100-feared-missing-boat-sinks-c-africa-081600815.html
http://www.dw.de/fatality-figures-sketchy-after-car-river-boat-accident/a-18194899
http://sputniknews.com/africa/20150115/1016946964.html
http://tvcnews.tv/?q=article/scores-missing-after-boat-car-catches-fire-and-sinks
http://www.russianews.net/index.php/sid/229404987
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/us/100-feared-dead-after-boat-sinks-in-c-africa/vp-dff01d29-77d9-4deb-84ed-d281d78fa5c1
Quote: "About 100 people are missing after a boat caught fire and sank in a river in the Central African Republic this week. The sinking happened on Monday after the boat’s motor exploded, starting a fire that quickly engulfed the vessel and forced terrified passengers to jump overboard. The boat was carrying an estimated 100 people down the Oubangui river from the capital, Bangui, when the fire broke out near the village of Modale, officials said on Thursday."
Quote: "Only one body has so far been found, he said, that of a 'child who is being taken back to Bangui with his mother, [who was] one of the few survivors. It is hard to say how many people have died because there is no rescue team [in the area]'."
2015-01-15 - Cargo ship 'Retaj' bursts into flame in coastal Iskenderun (Turkey):
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Retaj-7711919.html
http://www.haberturk.com/gundem/haber/1030396-yanan-gemiyi-yagmur-sondurdu
http://www.denizhaber.com.tr/retaj-adli-gemide-cikan-yangin-kontrol-altina-alinamiyor-haber-59870.htm
http://www.haberler.com/iskenderun-korfezinde-saman-yuklu-gemide-yangin-6867216-haberi/
http://www.haberufku.com/asayis/gemideki-yangin-kontrol-altina-alinamiyor-h153941.html
http://www.elazighaberi.com/guncel/togo-bandrali-gemideki-yangini-sondurme-calismalari-suruyor-h413977.html
http://www.denizhaber.com.tr/iskenderun-denbirport-limaninda-gemi-yaniyor-haber-59858.htm
http://www.habertuar.com/guncel/togo-bandrali-gemideki-yangini-sondurme-calismalari-suruyor-h203970.html
http://www.ajanshaber.com/gemide-korkulu-saatler-haberi/157176
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/27971708.asp
http://www.turkishmaritime.com.tr/freighter-catches-fire-in-iskedrun-port-20821h.htm
http://www.shippingherald.com/Admin/ArticleDetail/ArticleDetailsShippingNews/tabid/98/ArticleID/18823/Togo-flagged-cargo-vessel-on-fire-in-Iskenderun-Turkey.aspx
Quote: "Despite all intervention of the fire rescue the blaze could not be contained. Both from sea and shore teams were trying to control the fire. Four fire fighting tugs were on scene. However, the ship loaded with 5700 tons hay was completely ablaze with flames raging meters high and the sound of explosions."
2015-01-15 - Boat bursts into flame, fire spreads to RV, at mobile home park in coastal Palm Beach Gardens (Florida):
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/local/palm-beach-gardens-woman-cleaning-boat-it-just-wen/njpkf/
Quote: "One of the boats owners, who only identified herself as Barbara, said she was wiping the boat with a dry cloth when she suddenly smelled smoke. 'I looked and I see smoke coming out of the back,” she said. “The next thing you know it just went up in flames.'"
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. These are the 29th thru 55th boats to burn in 2015...
2015-01-15 - School bus bursts into flame near Pisgat Ze'ev suburb of Jerusalem (Israel):
http://www.onenewspage.com/n/World/754uw90xw/School-bus-catches-fire-near-Jerusalem-suburb-of.htm
http://www.easybranches.eu/school-bus-catches-fire-near-jerusalem-suburb-of-pisgat-zeev-no-injuries-reported-haaretzcom/countries
http://inagist.com/all/555698830264795136/
http://twitter.com/YiddishNews/status/555698830264795136/photo/1
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2015/01/15/school-bus-catches-fire-near-jerusalem-suburb-of-p/
Note: This is the 11th school bus to burn in 2015 and the 40th bus to burn in 2015. Here are some of the more notable fiery events to occur on this day: more underground fires and explosions, more boats burning, including that massive multi-yacht inferno, another plane catching fire, and another school bus burning. Escalation continues...
Category: Other Stories Of Interest
2015-01-16 - 2014 was hottest year ever recorded:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/2014-hottest-year-on-record_n_6479896.html
Quote: "Global average land temperatures were 1.80 F above average, while ocean surface temperatures were 1.03 F above average, the agency said. Land temperatures alone were only the fourth-warmest on record, but ocean temperatures were the warmest, which helped to make 2014 the warmest year overall."
Note: So LAND temps (which is to say 'air temps') weren't the warmest but OCEAN temps were the warmest ever recorded, and those ocean temps pulled the average up and made it the hottest year ever recorded overall. In other words, the oceans are warming faster than the air. That's Real Bad News because the warmer the oceans get, the more methane and hydrogen sulfide that will be released into the atmosphere and the more that human civilization will burn and the more that people and animals will go insane, sicken and/or die. And where is all that oceanic heat coming from? A significant amount of that heat has to be coming from BELOW, from volcanic activity and magma, which also explains all the new volcanic islands forming in the last year or two, the mysterious oceanic glow spotted by airline pilots, and all the volcanic eruptions that have been occurring around the planet, and especially in the last few years.
All the volcanic activity may end up causing volcanic winter, which could lower AIR temps a great deal - if it's not already doing so - and hit our lands with freezing cold, but that won't do anything to stop the heat rising from below, especially in the oceans, so we may end up freezing our asses off, but with an increasingly poisonous and flammable atmosphere to go along with that, so if you try to warm yourself with fire or electricity then you may explode or burn to death. That's quite a problem, and yet it is just one of many...
Category: Other Stories Of Interest
2015-01-17 - New species of anaerobic sulfate-reducing microbes discovered beneath the ocean floors:
http://www.sott.net/article/291439-New-species-of-sulphate-breathing-bug-discovered-deep-under-ocean-crust
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2912381/The-aliens-sea-New-species-sulphate-breathing-bug-deep-ocean-crust.html
Quote: "The microbes, which have yet to be classified and named, exist in massive undersea aquifers — networks of channels in porous rock beneath the ocean where water continually churns, researchers say. About one-third of the Earth's biomass is thought to exist in this largely uncharted environment."
Note: These sulfate-reducing microbes are what produce hydrogen sulfide. These are the most ancient type of life that exists on this planet. They were here long before oxygen-using life got a foothold and they will be here long after there are no human beings left alive. The more volcanic activity that occurs in the oceans, and the warmer the oceans get, the better these microbes will do, which results in large-scale methane and hydrogen sulfide releases, which ultimately flips a planetary 'reset switch' and most life on this planet - especially oxygen-using life - sickens and dies, as has happened in previous extinction events. The switch has been flipped. We're enduring the consequences now.
Quote: "Sulfate-reducing bacteria are those bacteria that can obtain energy by oxidizing organic compounds or molecular hydrogen (H2) while reducing sulfate (SO2-4) to hydrogen sulfide (H2S). In a sense, these organisms 'breathe' sulfate rather than oxygen in a form of anaerobic respiration. Sulfate-reducing bacteria can be traced back to 3.5 billion years ago and are considered to be among the oldest forms of microorganisms, having contributed to the sulfur cycle soon after life emerged on Earth. (There are a few genera of Archaea that can also reduce sulfate.)"
Category: Other Stories Of Interest
2015-01-18 - Mysterious kidney ailments afflicting people on the island of Sri Lanka:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH-20150119-46720-LKA
http://news.yahoo.com/mystery-kidney-killer-spreads-fear-sri-lanka-041036794.html
Quote: "Most of the 1,000 villagers have come here on foot and have stood for hours under the hot sun - not because they feel sick, but out of fear. They want to know if they will be the next victims of a mysterious kidney disease that has killed thousands of farmers in Sri Lanka's rice basket. Many have watched neighbors and loved ones - some only in their 30s - quickly succumb to deaths after their kidneys gave out. In the worst-hit villages, it kills as many as 10 people every month. No one knows why."
Note: From the full hypothesis: "Renal problems - e.g. problems with kidneys - will escalate, as is already happening with crop workers on the western coast of Central America."
2015-01-18 - 59 students sickened by poison gas at school in Kerman (Iran):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20150119-46721-IRN
http://en.haberler.com/almost-60-students-suffer-from-gas-poisoning-in-633644/
http://en.trend.az/iran/society/2354592.html
http://en.cihan.com.tr/news/Almost-60-students-suffer-from-gas-poisoning-in-Iran_6231-CHMTY1NjIzMS80
http://topnews.az/en/news/139903/Almost-60-students-suffer-from-gas-poisoning-in-Iran.html
Quote: "Mass gas poisoning occurred in a school in Iran’s Kerman city on Jan.18, Reza Jafari, spokesperson of the Disaster And Emergency Medical Management Center of Kerman province said. Jafari said 59 students suffered from gas poising in the school, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported on Jan.19. An ambulance team rendered first medical aid to the students. Some of them have been hospitalized."
Note: What'll happen if a whole school dies this way? They might have to shoot up the corpses, blame it on a gunman and hire some actors or something. I wonder if that's not already happened. Same thing with a lot of the 'murder-suicides'. Things to ponder...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-19 - Two houseboats and another boat destroyed by fire just after 2 AM while docked at marina in Port Washington (New York):
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/port-washington-boat-fire-injures-four-police-say-1.9821724
http://7online.com/news/port-washington-marina-fire-destroys-2-houseboats-smaller-boat/481304/
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/port-washington-boat-fire-injures-four-police-say-1.9821724
http://patch.com/new-york/portwashington/firefighters-battle-early-morning-houseboat-fire-port-washington
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Long-Island-Houseboat-Fire-Sinks-Port-Washington-289075291.html
http://7online.com/news/raw-video-of-port-washington-houseboat-fire/481477/
http://www.fireengineering.com/articles/2015/01/port-washington-ny-fire-damages-house-boats.html
http://www.topix.com/county/nassau-ny/2015/01/four-people-treated-for-smoke-inhalation-after-port-washington-boat-fire-police-say
Quote: "Two houseboats and a smaller boat were destroyed in a raging fire at a marina on Long Island overnight Monday. The Port Washington fire department responded to a call of a boat fire in the Haven Marina on Manhasset Bay in Port Washington just after 2 a.m."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-19 - Boat bursts into flame at Shoreline Marina in coastal Long Beach (California):
http://www.presstelegram.com/general-news/20150119/long-beach-firefighters-extinguish-boat-fire-at-shoreline-marina
http://www.fireengineering.com/news/2015/01/20/long-beach-firefighters-extinguish-boat-fire-at-shoreline-marina.html
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. Four more boats went up in flames in two different incidents the day prior too, mentioned in the 2015-01-18 update, so that's eight boats destroyed in two days. These are the 62nd, 63rd, 64th and 65th boats to burn in 2015...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-20 - Man found burned to death at coastal Bognor Beach (Britain):
http://www.spiritfm.net/news/sussex-news/1507115/burning-body-found-on-bognor-beach/
Quote: "They're not treating the death as suspicious."
Note: Nothing weird about that, people burning to death at beaches is totally normal!
2015-01-20 - Man found cooked to death in sauna in coastal North Miami Beach (Florida):
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Mans-Badly-Burned-Body-Found-in-Sauna-289224731.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2920220/Daughter-discovers-father-s-charred-remains-inside-sauna-timer-failed-turn-heat.html
Note: Bad timer? Maybe. But why didn't he leave if it got too hot? Did he have a 'medical event' and lose consciousness? What were the methane and hydrogen sulfide levels in the water itself? Oh, nobody checked, even after numerous places have found their tapwater to be flammable due to methane contamination. Maybe the water itself ignited and fried this man. Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-20 - Natural gas plant damaged by explosion and fire, billows fireballs, near coastal Gregory (Texas):
http://www.kztv10.com/news/plant-explosion-near-gregory/
http://klfy.com/2015/01/21/explosion-at-southcross-energy-natural-gas-plant/
http://www.caller.com/news/local-news/crews-respond-to-ingleside-fire_14815141
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/texas/article_0ba763f4-8cc3-5d59-bd57-38d755de1561.html
Quote: "Billowing fireballs over the Southcross Energy natural gas plant in Gregory were seen miles from the site."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-20 - High-rise damaged by fire at 4:30 AM in coastal Bronx (New York), 18 injured:
http://nypost.com/2015/01/20/18-injured-in-massive-bronx-blaze/
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/8-Injured-Bronx-Fire-FDNY-289124361.html
http://7online.com/news/10-hurt-in-bronx-early-morning-fire/482697/
Quote: "Eighteen people were injured in a fire at a high-rise building in the Bronx, fire officials said. Firefighters were still battling some flames on Washington Avenue almost two hours after it began early Tuesday morning in Claremont."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-20 - Yacht bursts into flame while docked in coastal St. Kilda (Australia):
http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/01/20/18/56/catamaran-gutted-by-blaze-in-melbourne-harbour
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/fire-engulfs-large-yacht-in-st-kilda-marina-20150120-12udp6.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-20/catamaran-catches-fire-at-st-kilda-pier/6029292
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/boat-erupts-in-flames-at-st-kilda-pier/story-fni0fit3-1227191175756
http://melbourne.dotnewz.com/smoke-warning-after-st-kilda-boat-fire-melbourne/
http://ban.jo/News/Australia-New-Zealand/20150120/Fire-Destroys-Boat-Off-Melbourne-Coast-Port-Phillip-St-Kilda/
http://australia.gotnewswire.com/news/smoke-warning-after-st-kilda-boat-fire
http://australia.news.net/article/2697261/catamaran-catches-fire-at-st-kilda-pier
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. This is the 66th boat to burn in 2015. And here are some of the more notable fires for this day: more people burning to death and more stuff exploding and/or burning near coasts...
Category: Other Stories Of Interest
2015-01-21 - Sewer gas odor sickens people at bank, bank closed, in coastal Cocoa Beach (Florida):
http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2015/01/21/firefighters-investigate-sewerage-odor-beachside-bank/22102675/
http://www.wopular.com/firefighters-investigate-sewage-odor-cocoa-beach-bank
Quote: "A strong smell of sewage and reports of at least three employees complaining of headaches moved managers to shut down a beachside bank this morning, officials report. 'They had the same call yesterday. The employees said there was a smell of sewer gas," said Capt. Justin Grimes of the Cocoa Beach Fire Department.'"
Note: Hydrogen sulfide is commonly called 'sewer gas'. So two days in a row the smell of hydrogen sulfide has hit this bank. Here's a Google Maps link of the area. Breathe too much hydrogen sulfide and you can suffer permanent kidney damage, brain damage, heart damage, etc, assuming you don't die. 59 children were just sickened by 'poison gas' at a school in Kerman (Iran), mentioned in the 2015-01-18 update. A sulfurous 'rotten egg' odor recently blew through coastal Seattle (Washington) and surrounding areas, mentioned in the 2015-01-06 update. Two billion-dollar blimps, primary mission to identify 'air breathing threats', were deployed off the US East Coast in December, mentioned in the 2014-12-21 update. A foul stench just blew through coastal Santa Rosa (Florida) in December, mentioned in the 2014-12-14 update. And so on and so on. Obvious planetary extinction event is obvious...
2015-01-21 - Hydrogen sulfide causing problems in sewer system in Ontwa Township (Michigan):
http://www.elkharttruth.com/news/2015/01/20/Ontwa-Township-s-sewer-system-continues-to-face-hydrogen-sulfide-problems.html
2015-01-21 - Protective bubbles over cities?:
http://www.weather.com/tv/shows/amhq/video/is-it-possible-giant-weather-dome-over-new-york-city
Note: I was just checking my local weather and saw this link, talking about bubbles over cities to protect them from the weather. Well, 'protect from the weather' is another way of saying 'protect from the atmosphere'. Seeing as we actually do have an atmospheric problem, this looks like psychological programming or something, to prepare people for possibly more bubbular times ahead...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-22 - Underground explosion blows off manholes, one almost hits child, in Birmingham (Britain):
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-30938161
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=318_1421956122
http://www.itv.com/news/central/2015-01-22/blast-sends-manhole-covers-flying-out-of-the-ground/
http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/exploding-manhole-shock-for-family-11363957090136
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11363527/Exploding-manhole-near-miss-for-toddler.html
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/toddler-escapes-exploding-manhole/vi-AA8u3yD
http://article.wn.com/view/2015/01/22/Birmingham_manhole_explosion_just_misses_child/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2922084/Caught-camera-shocking-moment-toddler-narrowly-escapes-CRUSHED-exploding-manhole-cover.html
Quote: "The fire service said the explosion had 'narrowly' missed the child."
Note: Whew, that girl came very close to dying there...
2015-01-22 - Underground mine fire erupts, ground belches fire and smoke, in Jharia (India), people freak out:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/underground-mines-fire-triggers-panic-in-jharia-115012201176_1.html
http://www.jharkhandstatenews.com/rising-fire-from-underground-mines-triggers-panic-in-jharia/
Quote: "Rising flame and smoke emitting from underground mines in Ghanudih project under Bastakola Area of Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) around 12 km from district headquarters triggered panic among 20,000 population in Jharia township. Eyewitnesses said, around 20 feet sheet of smoke and flame were billowing out from different seams of underground mines since Tuesday evening."
2015-01-22 - Underground transformer explodes and burns at 3:30 AM at hydro plant in Himachal Pradesh (India), 3 injured:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Fire-stalls-turbines-power-production-hit/articleshow/45990221.cms
http://www.ourhindustan.com/fire-breaks-out-underground-bhaba-hydel-project-himachal
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Himachal-hydro-power-project-catches-fire/articleshow/45977139.cms
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/fire-breaks-out-at-underground-bhaba-hydel-project-in-himachal/
http://www.dayandnightnews.com/2015/01/3-sustain-burn-injuries-in-fire-in-hp-power-project/
http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/33536-kinnaur-power-house-shut-after-fire-four-injured.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRU8jSwQmLo
Note: More underground stuff exploding and/or burning. Such events really started escalating about 3 years ago, at the same time events involving 'rotten egg' odors began escalating around the world, and at the same time that scientists began noticing that methane was beginning to dissociate (melt) in clathrate deposits around the world. That timing was no coincidence, and everything is still escalating today, and that will continue into the future, even long after there are no more human beings left alive on the surface of this planet...
Category: Other Stories Of Interest
2015-01-23 - Iowa State University researcher studying therapies for hydrogen sulfide poisoning survivors:
http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2015/01/22/hydrogensulfide
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-01-veterinary-potential-therapy-hydrogen-sulfide.html
http://www.businessrecord.com/Content/Default/-All-Latest-News/Article/ISU-researchers-battle-hydrogen-sulfide-poisoning/-3/248/67290
Quote: "Wilson Rumbeiha, a professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine, said the poison targets multiple systems in the human body, including the respiratory and cardiovascular systems and the brain. In high enough concentrations, exposure to the gas can be acutely fatal. But Rumbeiha’s research is focused on the long-term consequences of hydrogen sulfide poisoning in survivors. He said exposure can bring about psychological and neurological problems in humans, sometimes months after the exposure. 'In some cases, survivors can end up in a permanent vegetative state,' Rumbeiha sad. 'We don’t have an antidote, and little is known about the mechanisms behind how it works. It’s really a novel area that hasn’t been investigated very well.'"
Note: So as more people continue to get hit by hydrogen sulfide around the world, peoples' brains will take damage and they'll experience psychological and neurological problems, sometimes months AFTER exposure. In other words, people are going to be going crazy in rising numbers and from I've seen so far it looks like a fairly high percentage of people so afflicted tend to be violent - sometimes extremely violent - as they succumb and go insane.
Another question that it would be useful to have answered: Is the neurological damage the same, better or worse if the poisoning occurs via respiration, as compared with being poisoned via touch or via ingestion? And how about damage to other organs, like kidneys and livers and hearts - is that different depending on the method of poisoning? I suspect that breathing hydrogen sulfide gas does the most damage to the brain and being poisoned via ingestion does the most damage to the kidneys and livers, and it probably makes some difference where on your body you're poisoned when it's via skin contact, like when you touch garbage or wood or car upholstery or whatever on the day after a cloud blows through in the wee hours...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-24 - Underground electrical explosion and fire blows manhole off, on Galen Street in Watertown (Massachusetts):
http://www.watertownmanews.com/2015/01/24/man-hole-cover-blown-off-on-galen-street-power-out-in-area/
Quote: "A man hole cover was blown off by a fire on Galen Street near Morse Street on Saturday afternoon. A fire was reported in the manhole. The Watertown Fire Department was called and looked for possible extension of flames into the basements nearby homes but did not find any fire in the homes."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area...
2015-01-24 - Yacht and boat go up in flames shortly after 2:30 AM while docked at marina in coastal League City (Texas):
http://abc13.com/news/fire-rips-through-league-city-marina/489171/
http://www.galvestondailynews.com/free/article_dfb8ac66-a45b-11e4-9d1a-63594ccb249c.html
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/texas/article_01c0791a-c643-5ddb-bd83-41aee0111a83.html
http://www.lmtonline.com/news/state/article_80f4ecc9-0328-5648-bc8f-36702c1bf821.html
http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/1-boat-sunk-another-damaged-after-marina-fire-6039255.php
http://www.topix.com/forum/news/fire/TBLU39HO3R9PS5V6K
Quote: "Flames ripped through the South Shore Harbor Marina in League City early this morning. Authorities say the fire broke out on a yacht and spread to a smaller boat nearby. The fire started just after 2:30am."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. These are the 81st and 82nd boats or ships to burn in 2015. Underground explosions and fires appear to be escalating at about the same rate as boats going up in flames, which is logical since it's the same underlying cause...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-25 - Cruise ship 'Boudicca' bursts into flame at 4 AM off the coast of Morocco:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2925415/Boudicca-cruise-ship-stranded-Morocco-engine-room-fire.html
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Boudicca-7218395.html
http://news.sky.com/story/1414543/cruise-ship-listed-as-vessel-hit-by-fire
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30972125
http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=6165
http://www.tradewindsnews.com/casualties/353090/Cruise-ship-fire-scare
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/cruise-ship-boudicca-was-left-without-power-after-engine-room-fire-off-coast-of-morocco-10001060.html
Quote: "Holidaymakers on board the Boudicca were told to don life jackets and gather at emergency muster stations, according to the son of one passenger. The fire at 04:00 BST left the ship 'listing' and 'in pitch black', said Dave Tonkin, whose father is onboard."
Note: This is the fourth cruise ship fire in less than two months, and the second this month...
2015-01-25 - Eight boats and boat business go up in flames, building collapses, $1 million damage, in Bluff City (Tennessee):
http://www.wjhl.com/story/27936784/fire-does-1m-in-damage-to-bluff-city-business
http://www.tricities.com/news/article_d0fcec3c-a4f1-11e4-b24e-bb819c0d83e1.html
http://www.bbcboards.net/bbc-lounge/564758-watsons-marine-bluff-city-tn-burned-tonight.html
http://www.wcyb.com/news/fire-causes-damage-at-bluff-city-marina/30915936
Quote: "No injuries were reported, but there were at least eight boats inside the building at the time of the fire and the overall damage estimate to be at least 1 million dollars."
Note: The boatastrophe continues. These are the 83rd through 91st boats or ships to burn in 2015...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-26 - Massive mysterious explosion shakes homes and alarms people in and around coastal Wellington (New Zealand):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/65442205/explosion-in-wellingtons-eastern-suburbs
Quote: "What is widely being treated as an explosion in the eastern suburb about 9.30pm, is being put down by police as an unexplained mystery."
2015-01-26 - Smoke in the cabin sends passenger plane to emergency landing at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (Netherlands):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VIV-20150126-46789-NLD
Note: This is the 8th aircraft to smoke or burn in 2015...
2015-01-26 - 14 houseboats destroyed by fire just after midnight at the Walnut Creek Marina in Sacramento County (California):
http://www.firehouse.com/news/11818745/many-boats-burn-at-walnut-grove-marina-fire
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article8153076.html
http://fox40.com/2015/01/26/early-morning-marina-fire-burns-down-14-boats/
http://fox40.com/2015/01/26/overnight-fire-engulfs-14-boats-on-walnut-grove-marina/
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/01/26/walnut-grove-marina-fire-damages-14-houseboats/
http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sacramento/several-boats-destroyed-in-walnut-grove-marina-fire/30920686
http://www.news10.net/story/news/local/elk-grove/2015/01/26/walnut-grove-house-boat-fire/22342565/
http://www.wect.com/story/27940898/14-boats-destroyed-in-ca-marina-fire
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/home/3443893-181/more-than-a-dozen-boats
Quote: "Many of the boat owners live out of town and didn't know anything was wrong until they saw televised images of flames devouring their boats or got phone calls from friends."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. These are the 92nd through 105th boats or ships to burn in 2015. And here's another mysterious coastal explosion, another smoking plane and another pile of fried boats...
Category: Other Stories Of Interest
2015-01-27 - Cat found 'dead', buried, 'comes back to life', in coastal Tampa (Florida):
http://wtvr.com/2015/01/28/bart-the-zombie-cat-was-buried-and-then-came-home-five-days-later/
http://gma.yahoo.com/zombie-cat-buried-kitty-believed-dead-meows-back-194943102--abc-news-pets.html
http://www.wthr.com/story/27957189/believed-dead-and-buried-florida-cat-makes-amazing-return
http://cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/zombie-cat-killed-car-rises-dead-meows-back-life-22812.shtml
http://wiat.com/2015/01/27/dead-and-buried-cat-returns-alive-to-owners-florida-home/
http://wate.com/2015/01/27/tampa-cat-mistaken-for-dead-digs-himself-out-of-grave/
http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/top-story/stories/cat-comes-back-dead-22760.shtml
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/pets/chi-zombie-bart-the-cat-20150128-story.html
Note: A number of similar incidents in the last few years have resulted in children 'dying' and 'coming back to life', often to die again (for real) shortly afterwards. Hydrogen sulfide is known to put rodents into a kind of 'suspended animation' where there is virtually no heartbeat and the body temp drops to room temperature, making them look dead when they aren't. Scientists tried it with pigs too and it didn't work. So my working theory is that it's the size of the mammal that affects whether the 'suspended animation' effect is possible - rodents are small, pigs are large. Children and cats are small too, and it looks like they're small enough that sometimes they get put into suspended animation and are declared dead, even by trained doctors.
There've been a very few similar cases involving adults too. In those cases, they didn't mention the size of the person, but they happened to people who were old and/or who lived in poverty-stricken areas, so they may have been frail and/or skinny, so this might rarely affect adults too. In any case, for this to happen at all, it must take just the right dose over just the right amount of time, else you just end up with a corpse. Ya gotta wonder how many people have been presumed dead and buried just to awaken later in a coffin and suffocate, probably mostly children.
For more information about this particular subject, see the 2013-07-21 update, when a newborn baby was pronounced dead and 'came back to life' in Londrina (Brazil)...
2015-01-27 - Man has seizure at 1:20 AM at home, firefighters respond, roommate attacks them with swords, in Lansing (Michigan):
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/01/27/sword-swinging-lansing-firefighters/22406379/
Quote: "The man came out swinging with swords in both hands around 1:20 a.m. at a home in the 1500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Lansing police Public Information Officer Robert Merritt said. Firefighters had responded to the home to help the man's friend, who was having a seizure, Merritt said. He said the armed man was upset because he felt firefighters weren't helping his friend quickly enough."
Note: Near the Grand River. Here's a Google Maps link of the area. So one guy starts having a seizure in the wee hours and his roommate goes nuts with swords when firefighters show up. Somehow I think that 'whatever' affected the one man's brain and induced the seizure also affected the other man's brain too...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-28 - Mysterious explosion rocks coastal Le Havre (France):
http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/haute-normandie/2015/01/28/le-havre-bruyante-explosion-dans-lsecetuer-de-la-rue-buffon-ce-mercredi-apres-midi-642459.html
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/haute-normandie/2015/01/28/le-havre-bruyante-explosion-dans-lsecetuer-de-la-rue-buffon-ce-mercredi-apres-midi-642459.html&prev=search
Quote: "An explosion was heard around 15 hours throughout the city of Le Havre and beyond. It would be about the rue Buffon."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. Another mysterious explosion shook buildings and scared people in coastal Marseille (France) less than three weeks prior too, mentioned in the 2015-01-08 update...
2015-01-28 - Underground electrical fire breaks out near hospital in Fresno (California):
http://www.fresnobee.com/2015/01/27/4350667_electrical-fire-affects-traffic.html
2015-01-28 - Smoke odor reported on passenger plane after landing in coastal Seattle (Washington):
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/plane-evacuated-sea-tac-fire-alarm/njyfb/
Quote: "An Alaska Airlines flight deplaned normally after a report of a smoky odor on the plane. Sea-Tac Airport spokesman Perry Cooper said a fire alarm went off after the plane landed in Seattle."
Note: This is the 10th aircraft to smoke or burn in 2015...
2015-01-28 - Ferry ship 'Ullensvang' bursts into flame near coastal Hareid (Norway):
http://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Ullensvang-8513596.html
http://www.smp.no/nyheter/article10585485.ece
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smp.no%2Fnyheter%2Farticle10585485.ece&edit-text=
Quote: "The ferry was near the breakwater of Hareid when it abruptly turned and passengers were notifitied about a fire with loudspeakers. Smoke emerged from ventilation hatches. The crew extinguished the fire quickly."
Note: This is the 107th boat or ship to burn in 2015. And here's another mysterious city-shaking explosion on a coast, another underground fire, another smoking passenger plane, another ship burning...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-29 - 19 heavy trucks and public works garage destroyed by huge blaze in Edison (New Jersey), near the coast, nobody there:
http://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/local/middlesex-county/2015/01/30/edison-fire-municipal-garage/22579143/
http://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/2015/01/30/edison-fire-municipal-garage/22579143/
http://7online.com/news/firefighters-continue-to-put-out-hot-spots-in-edison-fire/497003/
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Officials-Investigating-Fire-Warehouse-Edison-New-Jersey-290287901.html
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2015/01/30/breaking-4-alarm-fire-at-a-public-works-building/
http://ban.jo/News/US-Canada/20150130/Massive-Explosion-Shakes-New-Jersey-Town-Edison/
http://www.trentonian.com/general-news/20150130/with-snow-in-forecast-fire-destroys-edisons-salt-spreaders
Quote: "The fire destroyed 11 public works salt spreaders with attached snow plows, three street sweepers, three repaving vehicles, a road maintenance truck and a fire engine that was awaiting repairs, township officials said."
Note: Here's a Google Maps link of the area. All vehicles are now randomly-igniting firebombs that can go off at any time now, so it's increasingly dangerous and foolhardy to park vehicles near anything you don't want to see burning, like other vehicles, or homes, or businesses...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-30 - Fleet of snow plow trucks and town garage destroyed by fire in Henniker (New Hampshire):
http://www.wmur.com/news/crews-responding-to-intense-fire-at-highway-department-garage-in-henniker/31018412
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20150130/NEWS07/150139902
http://www.wcvb.com/news/fleet-of-plows-complete-loss-after-henniker-garage-fire/31025174
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fire-destroys-hampshire-towns-snow-plows-28637049
http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Towns-Plow-Fleet-Destroyed-in-Fire-Before-Storm-290419101.html
http://www.concordmonitor.com/community/town-by-town/henniker/15484100-95/local-towns-pitch-in-to-assist-henniker-after-fire-destroys-town-garage-plows
Quote: "The fire department confirmed a second-alarm at around 8 p.m. Friday on Ramsdell Road. The town's entire fleet of plows have been destroyed. Now, the concern is how the town will clear snow Monday."
Quote: "The state fire marshal's office said five dump trucks used as snow plows, one road grader and several other vehicles that were stored in the town garage were destroyed. The damage could exceed $1 million."
Quote: "Investigators said the fire apparently originated in the engine of one of the trucks and spread."
Note: Another municipal garage was just destroyed by a huge fire in Edison (New Jersey) the day prior too, which incinerated 11 heavy snow plow trucks, 3 street sweeper trucks, 3 repaving trucks, a road maintenance truck and a fire engine, mentioned in the 2015-01-29 update...
Category: Fires And Explosions
2015-01-31 - Major library devastated by raging inferno in Moscow (Russia):
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31074938
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/31/fire-devastates-major-russian-public-library-threatens-rare-documents-slavic/
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article8856887.html
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/videos/news/fire-destroys-scientific-library-in-moscow/vDDKHk/
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/europe/firefighters-battle-large-fire-moscow-library-n297511
http://www.hickoryrecord.com/news/world/ap/fire-devastates-major-russian-library/article_78d83d97-3738-508b-afd1-857f7df03fee.html
http://www.sott.net/article/292096-Russian-library-housing-unique-documents-ancient-texts-devastated-by-fire
Quote: "Firefighters remain on the ground in Moscow, where overnight, flames ripped through the library of the city's Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences."
2015-01-31 - Large waterfront warehouse destroyed by massive inferno at 6:20 AM in coastal Brooklyn (New York):
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FR-20150201-46835-USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/nyregion/large-warehouse-fire-continues-to-burn-in-brooklyn.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/fire-rips-brooklyn-warehouse-saturday-morning-article-1.2098735
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nn-new-york-fire-20150131-story.html
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/five-alarm-blaze-at-brooklyn-warehouse/
http://abc13.com/news/7-alarm-warehouse-fire-burns-in-brooklyn;-1-injury-reported/498842/
http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/videos/news/raw-big-fire-at-storage-facility-in-brooklyn/vDDKcL/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/01/7-alarm-fire-destroys-brooklyn-warehouse-1-injured/
http://abc13.com/news/firefighters-battling-4-alarm-fire-in-nyc-storage-facility/498842/
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/large-blaze-engulfs-brooklyn-warehouse-n297546
http://7online.com/news/firefighters-battling-4-alarm-fire-at-brooklyn-storage-facility/498766/
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Smoky-3-Alarm-Blaze-Overtakes-Warehouse-in-Brooklyn-290418421.html
http://www.wopular.com/fire-rips-through-brooklyn-warehouse-saturday-morning
Quote: "A seven-alarm fire engulfed a warehouse crammed with official documents near the waterfront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Saturday morning, sending plumes of brown, acrid smoke into the air that were visible as far away as New Jersey."
Quote: "A marine unit has also responded. The facility takes up nearly an entire city block."
2015-01-31 - Five-story plastic recycling and packing factory ravaged by deadly fire in Dhaka (Bangladesh), 13+ killed:
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=FR-20150201-46837-BGD
http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/thirteen-killed-in-mirpur-plastic-factory-fire-62636
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article8862311.html
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/31/at-least-13-dead-as-fire-sweeps-through-plastic-packaging-factory-in-bangladesh/
http://allpinoynews.com/13-killed-in-bangladesh-factory-blaze-emergency-services/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/31/asia/bangladesh-factory-fire/index.html
Quote: "Local residents told the Daily Star newspaper that the factory recycled plastic and made packaging for food for the domestic market."
Note: Whew, the fires are getting big and devastating. Libraries and museums might wanna get their stuff - at least the most important stuff - digitized and/or off this planet before it's all destroyed...
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