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[gyre]

A missing 8 month old, described as a 'cute little busybody", survived having a house dropped on her.
No one expected to find her alive, but she was found in a small void created by one concrete block.

http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/lo ... 5f0c4a6282

http://www.wreg.com/global/story.asp?s=8116774

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/20 ... -old-girl/

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S ... 9&nav=1VGI

[LeChatNoir]

Wow...

[ragabashpup]

That must have been so scary for the family.

[gyre]

I think the family was already mourning the baby when she was found.
There was a much worse gas explosion recently that scattered the house for a half a mile.
It left almost no debris on the property.
No one was home for that one fortunately.

We had another miracle rescue after a tornado in the area.
You may have seen the family on network news.
The area was destroyed completely.
Searchers found the baby a great distance away in the mud.
He thought it was a doll.
The baby had a lot of scratches but no real injury.
The mother didn't survive, but saved her kid somehow.
It is so extraordinary that anyone was looking that far away, soon enough for rescue.

[motskyroonmatick]

A local fire department learned the hard way about venting a house filled with just the right combination of natural gas and air. They did not turn off the thermostat and when cold air activated it the house went BOOM! The ignitor in the furnace initiated combustion of the mix inside the house. The force of the blast blew the garage door off and in to the street where it hit parked response vehicles. Three firefighters were "ejected" from the house by the blast. Two in the garage and one that was standing in the back doorway. Everyone survived amazingly. The structure was left relatively intact but required demolition. A next door house occupied at the time by a child sick and home from school was shifted 6" off its foundation. The child was fine and had not answered the knock on the door by the responders evacuating the neighborhood.
Gas made its way in to the house from a street side line that was bored through by fiber optic installation contractors.

[gyre]

The baby was actually in someone's arms when the house exploded.
She has been in a good burn facility.
She suffered second and third degree burns but is doing very well.
Two people that were in the house are still in hospital.
She is being called "Miracle" in chicago and some other cities.
Seems she has quite a fan club.

[Intubater69]

A local fire department learned the hard way about venting a house filled with just the right combination of natural gas and air. They did not turn off the thermostat and when cold air activated it the house went BOOM! The ignitor in the furnace initiated combustion of the mix inside the house. The force of the blast blew the garage door off and in to the street where it hit parked response vehicles. Three firefighters were "ejected" from the house by the blast. Two in the garage and one that was standing in the back doorway. Everyone survived amazingly. The structure was left relatively intact but required demolition. A next door house occupied at the time by a child sick and home from school was shifted 6" off its foundation. The child was fine and had not answered the knock on the door by the responders evacuating the neighborhood.
Gas made its way in to the house from a street side line that was bored through by fiber optic installation contractors.

As someone who has fought structure fires, I don't recall the "Turn the Thermostat Down" lecture in my training. But I can totally see it happening. There are so many variables that can cause a snafu, and they extend far beyond the simple mix of combustible gases created by the burn process, hence ventilation. We would always turn off the electric and gas ASAP, vent the structure and then get positive pressure vent fans in position.

And about the baby found way the fuck away from the house after the tornado, I read about that one in the paper, and all I got to say about that one is DAMN! OK, I lie, that would just be the FIRST thing I said, I'm sure it would be followed by many other wonderful words. Here in Michigan we dont have too many tornado's, and the ones we do have are usually wimpy F1's n 2's.

I did find a 16 mth old dude who had wondered off from the house right before xmas who was plucked from a snowbank wearing nothing but a now frozen diaper. I said a few words that morning too....