A mysterious explosion left one woman dead and several injured/witnesses say a fireball from the sky.

[Tonka]

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1409399-explosion-en-una-vivienda-de-esteban-echeverria#comentar
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A mysterious explosion left one woman dead and several injured/witnesses say a fireball from the sky.


The incident occurred in an area of ​​low houses of Buenos Aires district of Esteban Echeverr?a game, everything is produced by a detonation, whose origin could not be determined yet
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Photo: Captures TV
A woman died and six others injured after a powerful explosion that occurred this morning at 2 in the Buenos Aires of Esteban Echeverr?a.

According to reports, the victim was identified as Silvia Infante Espinosa, Paraguayan and about 40 years.

The explosion, whose cause could not be determined yet, destroyed two houses and a local street located in the Andes and Vernet April 9th ​​ward, trapped under the rubble of the inhabitants and killing a woman and wounding six other people were rescued and taken to their attention.

According to the story of some neighborhood residents, the explosion was caused by an item that fell from the sky at the moment of impact.

"I saw something fall from the sky light," said one woman when asked. "It's a great question," shot another neighbor. Later, a young man said: "It was like a bomb."

Meanwhile, the owner of one of the affected houses he is dismayed by the TV cameras stationed at the site. "I do not know what happened. Just know that there was an explosion," simply noted.

So far, none of the scenarios could take hold with the passage of the hours. "I do not want to overtake anything. Let's wait for the forensic skills," said only the chief of the volunteer fire department of Esteban Echeverr?a, Guillermo Perez.

Following the event, also damaged three cars and several houses in the area, the agency reported fire T?lam Esteban Echeverr?a, based in Monte Grande.

 

[Tonka]

Re: A mysterious explosion left one woman dead and several injured/witnesses say a fireball from the sky.

http://noticias.terra.com.ar/vecino...89b8026c5b5a2310VgnVCM20000099f154d0RCRD.html
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(Photo at the link of whatever fell from the sky in Argentina)


Neighbor cell image captured with the explosion before September 26, 2011 ? 9:30 ? updated at 10:31
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An image taken by a neighbor in the morning invites us to consider various scenarios for the explosion that took place in Monte Grande
September 26, 2011
Photo: Web


Local residents of Monte Grande, where this morning there was an explosion reported seeing "a ball of fire fall from heaven" pre-made killing a woman and wounding six people. "He's sleeping rose sommier the floor, the ceiling machimbre buckled and blew all the windows of my house. When I went outside, fell a fire that burned up a pole at 20 meters, "said one resident of the district on April 9. In the context of his story, the man added: "My daughter is the fourth forward, and told me that when he opened the window, because I felt the smell of gunpowder, saw fireballs coming down and there was the explosion that hit my son in the leg ". Another neighbor who lives two blocks from where the explosion occurred this morning, was: "I was lying and it was amazing the sound was heard, the things I fell on top of wardrobe. I woke up because I heard a whistle and a few seconds after the blast that shook everything. " "When I saw that there was fire coming from above, something blue. It was not the normal color of any fire, it was all heavenly fire," said the woman told the press. In both Another woman living in the house across the recalled: "We were sleeping and the shock wave threw us out of bed, ran out and we found it. I come from the hospital because my daughter is hospitalized with a nervous breakdown and (there) the family was living in the house that exploded. " "They say they were sleeping and woke up with this. They thought they were the bottles, but are intact. The father of the boys told me that when everything exploded, the first thing he did was to look and try to get his children and wife who were under the rubble, "he added.

 

[Emily]

Re: A mysterious explosion left one woman dead and several injured/witnesses say a fireball from the sky.

I looked at the slideshow in your first link, Tonka, (just click on the photo of the dog), and the area is just devastated. (I can't imagine how that poor dog survived if he was there at the time and is not a search and rescue dog that was brought in later.)

Hopefully they'll figure out what happened since people living in the area must be very concerned. It's tragic about the death and injuries and loss of homes.

Here's an article in English:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/09/26/mystery-surrounds-deadly-explosion-in-argentina/

Mystery surrounds deadly explosion in Argentina

Published September 26, 2011


Buenos Aires – A mysterious explosion on Monday that left one person dead and eight others injured on the outskirts of the Argentine capital has sparked all sorts of conjecture, with local residents saying they saw "a powerful flash" and experts saying it might have been a meteorite.

"It was like a horror film. Everyone ran out of their houses, there were cars spinning around and the windows looking out on the street shattered," one of the residents of Monte Grande, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Buenos Aires, told Efe.
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A NASA spokesman contacted on Monday by Efe, ruled out the possibility that the blast was caused by the UARS satellite, since - according to the calculations of the U.S. space agency, almost all the pieces of the satellite fell into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/li...-deadly-explosion-in-argentina/#ixzz1Z8cosn9g

The Argentine authorities say nothing is being ruled out and they hope to know what happened soon. (They said there was no crater, just a "precise igneous focus" - whatever that means.)

 

[Emily]

Re: A mysterious explosion left one woman dead and several injured/witnesses say a fireball from the sky.

A gas leak from a canister used to power a pizza oven is suspected as causing the damage. The article says that the person who posted the video of the red fireball changed his story. (The flash of light and loud noise reports still sound credible if this was a gas explosion.)

I wondered about gas but I didn't see flames, singeing or burns reported. The photos in this story show cars that look like they might have some charring, though.

There is also a photo of the initial investigators in their radiation suits scanning the area with detection devices, since they had to rule that danger out first.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/americas/argentine-explosives-experts-probe-fatal-blast-witnesses-describe-fireball-from-sky/2011/09/26/gIQAjxPQzK_story.html

 

[Tonka]

Re: A mysterious explosion left one woman dead and several injured/witnesses say a fireball from the sky.

Readers comments suggest they are not buying the gas explosion either...fyi. First reports I saw showed all propane tanks in tact and statements of no gas lines to the home. Many stories surrounding this

http://tn.com.ar/sociedad/00067936/...la-version-de-los-ladridos-y-de-las-piedritas
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Mysterious explosion Echeverr?a ??: The version of the barking dogs and "pebbles"
While experts say possible the accumulation of gas caused the explosion, residents complain that it was a meteorite or an unidentified object.
Wednesday September 28, 2011 | 7:35


A series of events leading up to the explosion that left one dead and nine wounded in Esteban Echeverr?a are the main reasons why the locals suspect the cause of the tragedy. For them, it was a meteorite or an unidentified object (UFO).
The researchers did not stop surprising at the insistence of the locals, more than 30 witnesses consulted by the experts disbelieve the version of the exhaust gas , as quoted by the People's Daily . For experts, the hypothesis that fuel accumulation is presented as the principal on how to have started the outbreak.
Luis Burgos , the head of the Fundaci?n Argentina de UFOlogy , told the newspaper that told the neighbors-even frightened- the events that occurred before the explosion.
In the minutes before the tragedy, the woman who died went out to see what happened when he felt a small pebble falling on your roof. The family felt the same neighborhood and settled in police statements. In turn, another striking fact is related to the world mascotero. After midnight, the dogs howled and barked as if something altered.

Then there is this..

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1409487-demoran-a-un-joven-que-difundio-una-foto-de-una-esfera-luminosa

Stop to a young man who released a photo of a luminous sphere
The police asked for an explanation of course false witness, after the explosion, the image was in all the cell phones of journalists, was who fired the hypothesis of "meteorite"
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The photo of a meteor circulated by the press. Photo: File
The mysterious explosion this morning in Esteban Echeverr?a seasonings added confusion. Happened after the fact, a young man released a photo of a luminous sphere that allegedly would have fallen into place and so would have caused the explosion. There he assembled the hypothesis of "meteorite" and is banished to a possible gas leak from a bottle connected in a "home".

However, over the course of hours, as research progresses growing suspicions about the fidelity of this picture, in short, was in the cell of all journalists who were covering the news. The police decided to take this young man and ask for an explanation of the fact.

From the appearance of this young man who arrived on a motorcycle and began to display photographs of the alleged "meteorite", came also the director of Aurora, Warmkraut Paul, who is investigating the UFO phenomenon.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Esteban Echeverr?a, Fernando Gray, reported that some were given a detailed report on the progress of investigations. The firm hip?tesism?s again the exhaust gas

 

[Emily]

Re: A mysterious explosion left one woman dead and several injured/witnesses say a fireball from the sky.

Unfortunately there were some natural gas explosions in Seattle providing some photos to compare with the ones from Buenos Aries tragedy. They look like two very different phenomena.

http://www.king5.com/news/local/Fire-engulfs-house-in-Seattles-Pinehurst-neighborhood-130558363.html
Video at link.

Gas leak caused house explosion, fire in north Seattle
Fire officials said the explosion happened when an electrical switch was turned on inside the north Seattle home, sparking a massive explosion that sent a Seattle City Light employee and his girlfriend to the hospital.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/2...xplosion-in-Seattle-2189054.php#photo-1626546

But maybe if the Buenos Aires explosion was caused by a propane tank, that could explain the difference, though I read about one explosion from a large propane tank used to heat a home, and the home was vaporized with a deep crater remaining.

The Buenos Aires destruction looks more like the aftermath of a tornado to me. (But there was no tornado reported in area...)