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Multiple fire crews employed a pair of helicopters to battle a blaze following a Santa Clarita industrial park explosion Tuesday evening. The explosion occurred around sunset, according to fire department officials. Initial reports were that the Los Angeles area explosion occurred on a movie set. Officials later indicated that the location of the large explosion was the industrial park itself. With that clarification, the industrial park regularly has been used as a movie backdrop, according to local officials. Three people…

As if the challenges of returning to school in the midst of a global pandemic isn’t enough for students, teachers, and parents, multiple children in Denver sustained injuries in a bizarre school bus accident during the last week of January. Students on the bus are part of the HOPE Online Learning Academy. Although primarily an online school, students do participate in learning experiences each week in the brick and mortar world at a community-based Learning Center. In the immediate aftermath…

As if political unrest and other turmoil in the nation’s capital city isn’t enough, a mechanical explosion at BridgePoint Hospital resulted in extensive damage to the medical center and injured two people. Firefighters and investigators marvel that more people were not injured or even killed in the BridgePoint Hospital explosion accident at the end of an already turbulent week in Washington. D.C. What was known by the weekend of January 30-31, 2021, was that either a generator or boiler blew, resulting…

After two days of uncertainty over the number of people killed and injured at the Gainesville explosion accident at the Prime Pak Foods poultry plant in Georgia, officials have announced the names of six individuals who lost their lives: Jose DeJesus Elias-Cabrera, 45, of Gainesville Corey Alan Murphy, 35, of Clermont Nelly Perez-Rafael, 28, of Gainesville Saulo Suarez-Bernal, 41, of Dawsonville Victor Vellez, 38, of Gainesville Edgar Vera-Garcia, 28, of Gainesville The investigation into the cause of the Gainesville explosion…

Panic, confusion, and death were the order of a dreadful day in the aftermath of the Gainesville poultry plant industrial accident. After a catastrophic Prime Pak Foods liquid nitrogen rupture, that went off with all the apparent power of an explosion, at least five people were dead inside the Gainesville poultry plant and one other employee of the company died a short time later in the emergency room. In addition to the deceased worker, yet to be tallied fully number…