Explosion

More details from police and UM authorities over drug-related explosion..

An effort to create hash oil by heating marijuana with butane was the cause of Sunday's explosion at the University apartments on Yreka Court, near the University of Montana Golf Course Clubhouse.

The explosion at a University of Montana apartment complex on Sunday afternoon may have been drug-related, although that has not been confirmed by Missoula Police.

California regulatory judges have issued a $1.4 billion penalty against the state's largest utility for a 2010 gas pipeline explosion that engulfed a suburban San Francisco neighborhood in fire, killing eight people and prompting national alerts about aging pipelines.

Two adjacent apartment buildings in Manhattan collapsed after a gas explosion Wednesday morning. Two women were killed in the blast, which also injured at least 16 people and left many more missing.

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Two people who were seriously injured in an explosion in a camper east of Kalispell last week remain hospitalized in Portland, Oregon.

An employee of a Missoula auto body shop, who was injured in an explosion and fire when a spark ignited fumes from lacquer thinner, has died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He was identified as Bruce Hall, 44.

Authorities say that five to 15 people may have died in last night's massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Plant in West, Texas. Many more, perhaps more than 160, were injured.

An explosion in West, TX, just outside of Waco, spread fires across multiple buildings and injured an unknown number of people earlier tonight. The explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Plant shortly before 8 PM CT. A large number of people have been reported injured, though the number of those killed in the explosion, if any, has not yet been officially released...

A fire at an eastern Montana oil slop recycling facility that injured three workers is being allowed to burn because of the danger of more explosions.