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Five Hurt in Tennessee Explosion [1]

['The Associated Press']

Date: 1992-03-16

Two natural gas lines exploded in a small community today, shooting flames 200 feet into the air and igniting a fire that destroyed three houses and blackened more than 400 acres of rolling farmland, the authorities said.

At least five people were injured, two requiring hospitalization. Officials evacuated more than 100 residents within a four-square-mile area of the blast, which occurred in an unicorporated area outside White Bluff, a town of 2,000 people about 35 miles west of Nashville.

Two of four natural gas lines run in the area by Tenneco Inc. exploded in midafternoon, said Glynn Barton, a safety director with the State Public Service Commission. The cause was unknown.

"It could have been a fracture," a Tenneco spokesman, David Lane, said. "But the ignition had to come from another source. These lines fracture all the time because of stress."

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/16/us/five-hurt-in-tennessee-explosion.html

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