Uncontrolled polymerization in 7,000-gallon storage tank created dangerous pressure buildup and vapor release concerns.

Grave concerns over the possibility of an explosion that could send a toxic chemical plume into the air in Garden Grove weighed heavy on residents in the Orange County community and firefighters who ...

BLEVE or Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion is a vapor explosion caused by a catastrophic failure of a vessel that contains pressurized liquid above its boiling point at nominal atmospheric ...

The threat of a catastrophic explosion at a Southern California chemical tank, which resulted in an evacuation order covering tens of thousands of Orange County residents, has largely been eliminated, ...

Recently, the Nassau County Fire Academy in New York conducted live fire tests on the new lightweight fiberglass composite LPG (propane) cylinders that are now available for sale to the public in the ...

A densely populated area of greater Los Angeles became intimately familiar this past weekend with the term "BLEVE" (rhymes with "levee"). BLEVE is an acronym for "boiling liquid expanding vapor ...

The threat of a catastrophic explosion from a failing chemical tank at GKN Aerospace has been eliminated after an overnight operation, Orange County officials announced Monday. An evacuation shelter ...

Two days after the ship MV Wan Hai 503 caught fire off the coast of Kerala between the Beypore and Azhikkal ports on Monday, the Indian Coast Guard and the MERC Salvage Master—a Marine Emergency ...

According to the National Hazardous Materials Fusion Center, at approximately 1:30 pm, two employees of Droxol Propane were in the process of off-loading the contents of a railroad tank car into two ...