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The Day a Missing Line Turned a Neighborhood into an Inferno
The Day a Missing Line Turned a Neighborhood into an Inferno
Fear and disbelief: a routine pipe upgrade sent 150 times the normal gas pressure into a residential network, turning everyday furnaces into simultaneous explosives - and one missing line on a maintenance document set it all in motion. How did a single absent sentence lead to 80 fires, 30,000 evacuees, and an 18-year-old's death?
In this episode, we tell the chronological story of what happened on September 13, 2018: the chimney that crushed a car, the regulator that opened to full output, and the cascade of failures that followed…
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