Home > U.S. Bomb Squad, ATF Investigating Mysterious Explosion at Rhode Island Beach

[malaise]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/explosion-report-prompts-evacuation-rhode-island-beach/story?id=32384143
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Dave Dean, a local radio host who was on the beach at the time, said he first heard a low rumbling sound.

"I thought it was a small tremor or something," he said. "I didn't think anything of it. And I started hearing people start yelling 'Call 911' because a lady got hurt in the incident. I saw a lady on the ground, and after about 20 minutes they asked us to get off the beach."

"I walked over to try and take a look at what happened. There was what looked like a sink hole. ... If you had dug a hole and put some sand over it that’s what it looked like," Dean said.

Another beachgoer, Stacey Beal, described a gas odor at the scene.

"We were just sitting at the beach. Heard a loud explosion sound, something like a gas explosion, and when we looked up, it was like a pile of sand blowing up out of the ground," Beal said.

"We saw a woman come out of her chair and we saw all the sand come up like a volcanic eruption, and she was thrown five feet up and came down on her front side," Beal said.

Beal said the victim was conscious when emergency responders took her off the beach.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Probably an old buried gas line

or something of that sort.

Scary, though.

[malaise]

4. Very scary

We don't have a clue what is below the sand or even in our backyards

[madokie]

2. Rec and reply for more exposure

my hope is she will be ok.

[malaise]

3. Same here

I fear gas line

[madokie]

5. I think we'd all be surprised at the number of gas

and oil pipelines that cross our country. I know some friend bought some land and never bothered to check and after they took possession they found out that there were two gas and one oil pipe line running across it. needless to say there went their plans to build on it.

[malaise]

6. I wonder if officials in any country let alone state know where the gas lines are buried

Scary!

[madokie]

7. I bet there's more that don't than there is that do

[pinboy3niner]

9. My L.A. neighborhood was blown up by a GASOLINE pipeline explosion in '76

The pipeline, running under the middle of Venice Blvd. from a refinery on the coast, was struck by a backhoe during median reconstruction.

[lonestarnot]

8. Are they fracking over there?

[Marrah_G]

10. No