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[MilSpecs]

What's going on with all the Gas Line fires in Lawrence, Mass ?
39 homes burned in 3 communities.

My first thought is an over pressurized line. But I haven't heard a cause.

I read something about an underpressurized line. A bunch of people are in critical condition. An entire college was evacuated and anyone getting service from that company was told to leave their homes.

It looks like they’re being careful about what they report until more facts come in, but this sounds like either a technical/structural failure or the mother of all screwups. I wonder if there’s some kind of safety mechanism that could be put on Home lines to prevent this?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Every home has its own regulator at the gas main, doesn’t it? I’m not clear on how low pressure could cause a leak..

[Montegriffo]

Every home has its own regulator at the gas main, doesn’t it? I’m not clear on how low pressure could cause a leak..

Has to be a Mooslim terrorist plot. Notice how the gas's nation of origin has not been mentioned by the lying MSM?

[C-Mag]

Every home has its own regulator at the gas main, doesn’t it? I’m not clear on how low pressure could cause a leak..

Under very low pressure, the gas in the pipe could ignite and the flame could chase the fuel up the line if there is enough oxygen for combustion.

[TheReal_ND]

Right, gas of any kind replaces oxygen or really just the atmosphere it is contained in. I've never seen a regulator on a home just a valve.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Every home has its own regulator at the gas main, doesn’t it? I’m not clear on how low pressure could cause a leak..

Under very low pressure, the gas in the pipe could ignite and the flame could chase the fuel up the line if there is enough oxygen for combustion.

That would mean that any time the gas company fails to maintain adequate pressure, 365/24/7, houses start exploding.

I’m not sure this is true... and if it is, I don’t want my house hooked up to gas any more.

[C-Mag]

Every home has its own regulator at the gas main, doesn’t it? I’m not clear on how low pressure could cause a leak..

Under very low pressure, the gas in the pipe could ignite and the flame could chase the fuel up the line if there is enough oxygen for combustion.

That would mean that any time the gas company fails to maintain adequate pressure, 365/24/7, houses start exploding.

I’m not sure this is true... and if it is, I don’t want my house hooked up to gas any more.

I'm not sure either, not a Gas Dynamics Engineer. But it makes sense that at low pressure enough oxygen could infiltrate the line to carry combustion down the line. I don't know how else you would get explosions following the line.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Under very low pressure, the gas in the pipe could ignite and the flame could chase the fuel up the line if there is enough oxygen for combustion.

That would mean that any time the gas company fails to maintain adequate pressure, 365/24/7, houses start exploding.

I’m not sure this is true... and if it is, I don’t want my house hooked up to gas any more.

I'm not sure either, not a Gas Dynamics Engineer. But it makes sense that at low pressure enough oxygen could infiltrate the line to carry combustion down the line. I don't know how else you would get explosions following the line.

I assumed that there was some kind of pressure spike that overloaded everybody's regulators/valves, and forced too much gas into the home.

[The Conservative]

What's going on with all the Gas Line fires in Lawrence, Mass ?
39 homes burned in 3 communities.

My first thought is an over pressurized line. But I haven't heard a cause.

That's exactly what is being stated as the issue. The feds are getting involved.

We are told it's over-pressurizations, over 70 houses have had explosions in them because of this.

[brewster]

I've never seen a regulator on a home just a valve.

All homes here have pressure stepdown regulators. They don't look like compressed gas regulator, just a gray disk shape in the gas line about 6" diameter. See it there on the top left?