Rhode Island Beach Explosion Injures Woman, Sends Her Flying Onto Rock Jetty

[pwjohn]

I've ripped off a few worthy of mention but nothing like this

 

[pwjohn]

Anything new

 

[Marianne]

Rhode Island Beach Blast: The Last Thing Victim Remembers Before Explosion
Jul 13, 2015, 9:55 AM ET
By EMILY SHAPIRO

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A woman injured in an apparent explosion at a Rhode Island beach said the last thing she remembers is relaxing and reading a book.
“We watched a gentlemen get ready to go scuba diving. He was putting on his scuba diving gear and that’s the last thing I remember," Kathleen Danise, 60, of Waterbury, Connecticut, told ABC affiliate WTNH on Sunday.

Danise was at the Salty Brine State Beach in Narragansett on Saturday with her two sisters and niece when she was launched onto rocks during an apparent explosion.

“She was like a human cannon,” Danise’s sister, Laura Demartino, told WTNH.



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One beachgoer, Michele Martin, said the injured woman "went five feet up in the air," and, "landed on her face."

"She was in shock, couldn't talk at all," Martin said.

Demartino said her sister was unconscious for three minutes.

Danise was hospitalized with a concussion, two broken ribs and bruises, but was later released.

Officials have not said what caused the explosion, but stressed Saturday that there was no indication of a device or malicious intent.

While several beachgoers said they smelled gas after the explosion, a spokesman for National Grid, which manages gas and electric service in the area, said there are no gas lines along the beach.

Danise has been going to this beach for 30 years, but told WTNH now she won't back.

For now, Danise plans to "just hopefully get better as soon as possible and get back to work."

 

[pwjohn]

Beach goers reported smelling nat gas after the explosion. I wonder if that was propane nat gas or regular nat gas?

 

[pwjohn]

I'm thinking propane or nat gas myself.

 

[Marianne]

But how would it get there? The scary thing is either they really don't know or they do know and they're keeping it quiet. either way it's not good.

 

[pwjohn]

Well it could be as simple as a food truck parked nearby leaking propane that migrated in sufficient quanaties to where the beach goer was blown Up.

Another possibility is a nearby leaking nat gas line that's actually saturated the ground all around it with nat gas, and that's what's blowing up. If that's the case it's gonna take a while to clean up.

 

[Marianne]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/mystery-deepens-rhode-island-beach-blast/story?id=

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The mystery of an apparent explosion on a Rhode Island beach that left a woman hospitalized deepened Monday as investigators dug up an electrical line running underneath the beach.

An official from the National Grid, which manages gas and electric service in the area, told ABC News there is an electrical line running underneath the beach that will be unearthed and examined as investigators try to figure out if it is connected with blast.

Several beachgoers said they smelled gas after the explosion Saturday at the Salty Brine State Beach in Narragansett.

The electrical line is right where the incident occurred and is about a foot under the sand.

A spokesman for National Grid had said earlier there were no gas lines along the beach.


Rhode Island State Police Col. Steven G. O'Donnell told the Associated Press Monday that investigators have not even found physical evidence of an explosion.

Reached by ABC News, the state police deferred comment to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, which said the state fire marshal’s office is handling media questions.

An official from the state fire marshal's office told ABC News today there was no evidence of any device. The fire marshal's office declined to comment further.

A similar finding was mentioned Saturday.

"We have no evidence or indication that there was a device, this could be natural, it could be man-made, at this point, it's still under investigation," Kurt Blanchard, the acting chief of the Rhode Island Environmental Police, said Saturday.

Another possibility could be an earthquake, but the U.S. Geological Survey told ABC News there was "no seismic activity in that area."

"You aren't going to see an explosion like this from a geologic source without a seismic record," seismologist Lucy Jones said.

After the apparent explosion, the beach was evacuated. A bomb squad responded to the scene and the beach was sampled.

The beach then reopened to the public Sunday.

One woman, Kathleen Danise, 60, was injured in the explosion when she was launched onto nearby rocks. She suffered a concussion and broken ribs and was briefly hospitalized.

“She was like a human cannon,” Danise’s sister, Laura Demartino, told ABC affiliate WTNH on Sunday.

 

[koshergrl]

Sounds like the human cannon was zapped by a few volts.

 

[Marianne]

Sounds like the human cannon was zapped by a few volts.

Well that would explain a lot. Of course if that's the case then the decision to open the beach will come under fire.

 

[blastoff]

Perhaps she let a nice one go and the electricity ignited it? How unladylike.

 

[Marianne]

Perhaps she let a nice one go and the electricity ignited it? How unladylike.

IDK how many times I've said Taco Bell is dangerous, especially to us New Englanders who aren't used to spicy foods.