Two men were killed and two others injured when an industrial-sized electric water heater exploded in a Rancho Santa Margarita plastics factory. The blast was of such force that it shot the water heater through the roof of the Orange County facility. It then came crashing down inside the building. —L.A. Times, 3/21/09
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A convenience store gasoline pump caught fire and exploded Tuesday, killing a woman and injuring at least one other person, police said. Witnesses told The Gazette newspaper the pump caught fire after hit was hit by a pickup that had in turn been struck by an SUV. Police said the incident was
An 82-year-old’s lifelong hobby of foraging for wild mushrooms turned tragic when he picked the wrong ones in the hills above Santa Barbara, sauteed them with a steak, and ate them. This would be his last meal. Angelo Crippa died after he ate a heaping plate of Amanita ocreata mushrooms, known as “death angel” because
A tree-trimmer was crushed by a ring of palm fronds that slipped over him, pinning him to a roughly 70-foot tree. The worker was in a harness 50-60 feet up the tree when a heavy, ring-shaped section of fronds came loose above him. It took more than 90 minutes for firefighters to get him to
Sudden Death: Crocodile!
CANBERRA— A boy who vanished from an Australian river edge was eaten by a crocodile, police said. The boy was playing with his 7-year-old brother and their dog behinf their family property in a flodded mangrove swamp when he disappeared. The boy’s brother told officers that he saw a crocodile immediately after missing his brother
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