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Investigators identify gas leak at site of New York blast
Source: Reuters
Investigators identify gas leak at site of New York blast
BY VICTORIA CAVALIERE
NEW YORK Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:37pm EDT
(Reuters) - The federal agency investigating a natural gas explosion that leveled two New York City apartment buildings last week, killing eight people, said on Tuesday it had identified a gas leak next to one of the buildings.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents involving pipelines carrying hazardous materials, has been studying the gas lines to determine what caused the explosion and the collapse of the two five-story buildings in Manhattan's East Harlem neighborhood last Wednesday.
The five women and three men killed in the explosion died of burns, smoke inhalation or blunt-force trauma, a spokeswoman for the New York City Medical Examiner said Tuesday. The deaths were ruled accidental, she said.
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The NTSB, in a statement on Tuesday, also said the eight-inch cast iron and plastic gas main that served the buildings had failed a pressure test at the normal operating pressure.
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BY VICTORIA CAVALIERE
NEW YORK Tue Mar 18, 2014 5:37pm EDT
(Reuters) - The federal agency investigating a natural gas explosion that leveled two New York City apartment buildings last week, killing eight people, said on Tuesday it had identified a gas leak next to one of the buildings.
The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents involving pipelines carrying hazardous materials, has been studying the gas lines to determine what caused the explosion and the collapse of the two five-story buildings in Manhattan's East Harlem neighborhood last Wednesday.
The five women and three men killed in the explosion died of burns, smoke inhalation or blunt-force trauma, a spokeswoman for the New York City Medical Examiner said Tuesday. The deaths were ruled accidental, she said.
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The NTSB, in a statement on Tuesday, also said the eight-inch cast iron and plastic gas main that served the buildings had failed a pressure test at the normal operating pressure.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/18/us-usa-new-york-collapse-idUSBREA2H26X20140318
