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Six people were hospitalized in California following a devastating home explosion caught on video. Footage from a doorbell camera at a home near Hayward in the San Francisco Bay Area showed a property ...

HAYWARD, Calif. -- At least six people were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after a massive explosion caused a large fire in Hayward, California, fire officials say. The Alameda County Fire ...

Home security camera footage captured the moment an explosion rocked a neighborhood in Haywood that injured at least six people and left two others missing while destroying homes. (Credit: Christian ...

A gas explosion started a major fire in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood on Thursday, blowing out windows in homes and sending heavy smoke into the air. Fire officials said six people were taken ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board has released a new video reconstructing a fatal 2021 explosion at a Columbus paint factory. Investigators found the company failed to ensure ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...