Tag Archives: Blast

US military plant explosion: ‘No survivors’ found after Tennessee blast; at least 18 presumed dead  Times of India 16 people died in a blast at a Tennessee explosives factory early Friday, the sheriff says  AP News No survivors found after Tennessee explosives plant blast  BBC Deadly explosion marks second in nearly 12 years at site in Bucksnort, Tennessee  WSMV Aerial view shows ‘devastating’ Hickman …

McEWEN, Tenn. (AP) — The blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around left no survivors, authorities said Saturday. The total number of dead was unclear, as was the cause of the Friday blast. By the weekend the devastation came into focus, with officials saying they’d found no survivors. READ MORE: Blast at …

There were no survivors in the blast that obliterated part of an explosives factory in rural Tennessee, authorities said on Saturday. The families of 18 people had been waiting anxiously on Saturday as their loved ones had been feared dead since explosions ripped through the plant near McEwen in western Tennessee early on Friday. The initial toll had been believed …

Early Friday, a thundering blast at a military and industrial explosives plant reverberated across a tight-knit community in central Tennessee, razing an entire building on the plant’s sprawling campus and killing a still-unknown number of people. At least 18 people remain missing after the massive explosion, which rattled homes miles away and rocketed debris for at least half a square …

19 missing after blast rocked Tennessee military explosives plant  The Washington Post Deadly Oct. 10 explosion marks second in nearly 12 years at TN explosives manufacturer  WSMV 19 people missing after blast levels Tennessee explosives facility  BBC 19 missing in explosion at Hickman County plant, officials say — everything we know  The Tennessean Pope Leo denounces “an economy that kills” and “imbalances of wealth”  Yahoo …

A rocky visitor from beyond our solar system is leaking water like a “fire hose running at full blast,” a new study reports. Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, scientists have for the first time detected the chemical fingerprint of water spilling from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from another star system ever observed passing through our …

Several small explosions follow first major blast – sheriffpublished at 17:55 BST 17:55 BST Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis says there were several small explosions after the first major blast, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partners. “We have got a very big investigation,” he says. “We are going to probably be here for a couple few days.” Another …

Over 250 developers at MindsEye maker Build A Rocket Boy were laid off earlier this year following the AAA open-world shooter’s disastrous launch. Now, over 90 current and former staff have signed an open letter blasting the studio’s management, including founder and long-time Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies, over what they claim were poor working conditions and a chaotic layoff …

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began blasting water “like a fire hose” before it was anywhere near the sun, according to a recent study. Researchers observed the comet scattering water unusually early in a discovery that sheds light on how the building blocks of life are distributed across other planetary systems. Initial James Webb Space Telescope observations have suggested that 3I/ATLAS …

Here we go, one last time. One final October quadrupleheader unfolding across a flatscreen near you. One last chance to sprawl on your sofa and watch nine hours of must-win postseason baseball, featuring (among other things) … A “three-pitch” strikeout that never got around to requiring all three pitches … an infield fly that was so invisible, it didn’t qualify …