speculation about cut gas pipes

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I heard that a fair few gas explosions are a caused by gas theft. Don’t know if it’s the cause in this case.
 
I heard on the news that it was a mobile gas heater cylinder
 
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dilalio said:
I hope it was a fateful accident. For everyone's sake.
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Well it looks like it was, but I dont think its nice to say that an explosion like that should have far-reaching or disastrous consequences or implications for everyones sake.
 
dilalio said:
Not sure what you mean?
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dilalio said:
I hope it was a fateful accident. For everyone's sake.
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ericmark said:
It could be as simple as bonding on wrong side of isolator and loss of PEN. There is no point I'm speculation as to how it happened, just glad I use oil.
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Please dont comment on something you know absolutely nothing about. yes parents got up at 2:30 AM to cut a gas pipe and because they didnt have bonding the house blew up
 
ianmcd said:
Please dont comment on something you know absolutely nothing about. yes parents got up at 2:30 AM to cut a gas pipe and because they didnt have bonding the house blew up
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Possibly but also the pipe could have melted due to loss of PEN when some one steels copper from a sub station and bond wrong side of isolating block. i.e. an electrical error nothing to do with gas. I have seen the bond wrong side of isolating block, but with EV chargers we are told approx 500 loss of PEN per year and 10% result in injury, so in grand scheme of things very unlikely to cause a problem, but it can, and this could have happened here, unlikely, but could. The loss of PEN has in the past caused gas explosions, so can't rule out an electrical fault.

As an electrician I do know what a loss of PEN can do, it is not something I know nothing about.
 
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