Investigators from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) are in Firestone, Colorado to examine what’s left of a home that blew up when an abandoned pipeline from a nearby well leaked gas into the basement. The explosion killed two people and left a third badly burned.
News sources reported that fire officials said the blast was caused by unrefined natural gas that was leaking from a small abandoned pipeline from a nearby well. The line had apparently been cut, but it’s not known how or why that occurred. The pipeline was buried about 7 feet underground.