"The cause of the blast is unknown"

[Nozzle]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-37020099



The boiler is suprisingly intact though!!

Nozzle

 

[Dan Robinson]

Doubt its the boiler - looks a little too un-mangled to me.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Vaillant boilers are bomb proof!



Andy

 

[Dan Robinson]

They were at least - doubt a leakoTEC would look so shiny after that

 

[oilboffin]

Looks like it done a 180 judging by the position of the flue

 

[Brigade77]

I know a likkle bit about explosions & judging from the photo's it definitely was not the boiler. Very impressed that the nearest neighbours weren't obliterated, couple this to the roof damage & it indicates a floor level ignition.

It was an atmospheric gas explosion, of that there is no doubt.

Whether it was piped natural gas or the latest method of refining the weed I don't know . . . . but I somehow bet it's going to be hard to find the gas meter intact !

 

[Nozzle]

Dork Lard,

I think it's curious that more of the roof was blown off the neighbours house than the house which apparently had the explosion, what do you make of that? Perhaps there were just more nails in the tiles or a newer roof.

Nozzle

 

[dilalio]

Edit: comment removed by me, with regret.

 

[Dan Robinson]

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[nauseous]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-37020099



The boiler is surprisingly intact though!!

Nozzle

And how that ladder stayed up in the blast too. Incredible.

 

[Agile]

The 63 y.o. "father" from the house has now died from his injuries!