FWAppraiser said:
That building has had a lot of work done on it recently. I would guess a loose fitting.
As of now, MedStar is reporting 11 injured and no confirmed fatalities. Hopefully that remains the case.
yup, natural gas is first suspect when nothing appears burned.kingj3 said:
I say again: Natural gas is a threat to our democracy
DannyDuberstein said:
XTO Energy had its HQ there years ago. They were a client of mine for 5 years, so lots of time spent there. First floor was really cool. Board room basically set up in an old bank vault. Really neat old building. Some photos from back then
https://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=180
Raytheon? A conference he attended?cctexagMD said:
Someone I know was there and injured and made it to hospital. Said some others got it really bad.
He works at RAYTHEON and was attending some sort of conference.
BREAKING: Moment captured after major gas explosion at Sandman Hotel in Fort Worth, Texaspic.twitter.com/LBXwI6tCOM
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Is that the original name of the building? I was trying to identify it with my parents, who are both from Fort Worth. They said the Continental National Bank was in the lobby at one point.Desert Ag said:
Former W.T. Waggoner bldg.
91AggieLawyer said:
Holy crap. I used to work about 3-4 blocks away from there and eat lunch about a block away.
So the reports by people smelling gas after the explosion were likely caused by the blast but not the cause of the blast?Midland CT 05 said:
My wife works 2 blocks away, and I remodeled a condo across the street last year so I've been following this story. Fort Worth Start Telegram just posted a story where Atmos has said their gas system was not involved in the blast….
Sorry on my phone or I'd post a link, they just shared it on the twitter page.
I would assume that to mean that the leak did not happen on their side of the meter. There could have been a leak from inside the building. There was construction going on in the kitchen at the time.Midland CT 05 said:
My wife works 2 blocks away, and I remodeled a condo across the street last year so I've been following this story. Fort Worth Start Telegram just posted a story where Atmos has said their gas system was not involved in the blast….
Sorry on my phone or I'd post a link, they just shared it on the twitter page.
What's odd to me is that you'd need a fairly large buildup of gas to have that big of an explosion. The kitchen is in the basement so that would be an area that could accumulate enough but I'd think SOMEONE would have smelled it or even had effects from that much gas before it accumulated enough for that big of a boom.JayHowdy! said:I would assume that to mean that the leak did not happen on their side of the meter. There could have been a leak from inside the building. There was construction going on in the kitchen at the time.Midland CT 05 said:
My wife works 2 blocks away, and I remodeled a condo across the street last year so I've been following this story. Fort Worth Start Telegram just posted a story where Atmos has said their gas system was not involved in the blast….
Sorry on my phone or I'd post a link, they just shared it on the twitter page.
There IS a taco Bell just 7 blocks down the street (W Weatherford/Henderson)Stat Monitor Repairman said:
First floor of a building blows out in the middle of the day in a major metro area.
Sure seems like a lack of urgency in figuring this out.
If the leak was underground and coming up through the soil, that can scrub out the mercaptan which is added to the gas to make it smell. Without that, natural gas is odorless.Bregxit said:What's odd to me is that you'd need a fairly large buildup of gas to have that big of an explosion. The kitchen is in the basement so that would be an area that could accumulate enough but I'd think SOMEONE would have smelled it or even had effects from that much gas before it accumulated enough for that big of a boom.JayHowdy! said:I would assume that to mean that the leak did not happen on their side of the meter. There could have been a leak from inside the building. There was construction going on in the kitchen at the time.Midland CT 05 said:
My wife works 2 blocks away, and I remodeled a condo across the street last year so I've been following this story. Fort Worth Start Telegram just posted a story where Atmos has said their gas system was not involved in the blast….
Sorry on my phone or I'd post a link, they just shared it on the twitter page.
