News. 2 dead after massive explosion rocks Houston, destroys homes after gas leak at manufacturing plant The blast left a half-mile-long trail of debris and damaged at least 200 structures.

2 dead in Houston explosion that destroyed building, caused 'significant' damage to homes. The owner of the business says the blast was a propylene gas explosion.

Family members help sift through the wreckage of the home where Jewell Myers lived for 50 years until an explosion caused by a gas leak completely destroyed the house early Sunday morning.

Propylene is a colorless gas used to produce chemicals in plastics, ... Mark Brady, who lives near the blast site, told Houston TV station KPRC that the explosion “knocked us all out of bed. ...

HOUSTON -- A gas leak inside a Houston home caused a large fire which led to an explosion on Sunday morning, according to the Houston Fire Department. It happened around 10 a.m.

Operators shut off the flow of natural gas liquids, but so much remained in the 20-inch (51-centimeter) pipeline that firefighters could do nothing but watch and hose down adjacent homes until it ...

Human remains found in SUV after Texas explosion Human remains were found inside an SUV that crashed into a natural gas pipeline valve in the Houston suburb of Deer Park, causing an explosion and ...

As many as 10 people may have been injured Friday night in a natural gas explosion that sparked a fire in Spring, a Texas town outside Houston.

A pipeline explosion near Houston erupted in a towering flame over neighborhoods for hours on Monday, forcing evacuations and shelter orders and melting playground equipment.

Utility workers trying to repair a broken gas line north of Houston struck another one, causing an explosion that injured six of them, including one critically, authorities said. The explosion ...

DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — A towering flame gradually subsided Tuesday morning in the aftermath of a massive pipeline explosion after a vehicle drove through a fence and struck an above-ground ...

A 2,000-gallon tank of highly flammable gas that caused the explosion has been secured, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña said in a Friday morning news briefing.