18 Injured, Explosion Reported During USS Bonhomme Richard Fire: Officials
BY JACK PHILLIPS Update at 5 p.m. ET: At least 18 people were hospitalized in the incident, Navy and fire officials have confirmed. Naval Surface Force wrote that about 160 sailors were on board the vessel at the time, adding that “18 sailors have been transferred to local hospitals.” Their injuries were described as non-life-threatening. The fire was called away at […]
Ventura Man Sentenced in Santa Clara Waste Water Explosion Case
VENTURA, California – District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today that Kenneth Douglas Griffin, Jr. (DOB 7/04/95), of Ventura, was sentenced to serve seven months in custody and placed on formal probation for three years for his role in causing a 2014 explosion at Santa Clara Waste Water Company (“SCWWC”) in Santa Paula, California. Numerous […]
New York explosion leaves dozens injured
An explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York on Saturday night injured at least 25 people, the fire department said. . None of those 25 people has life-threatening injuries, according to a tweet from the New York Police Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau. . Gas has been ruled out as the cause of the explosion, a […]
Grand Jury issues indictments in Mission Rock Explosion
District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced today the indictment of Santa Clara Waste Water Company (SCWWC), Green Compass Environmental Solutions LLC, Douglas Brian Edwards (DOB 9/10/1956), William James Mitzel (DOB 3/15/57), Marlene Joan Faltemier (DOB 1/13/65) and Charles Ray Mundy (DOB 12/27/1963) for crimes related to the operation of SCWWC’s Santa Paula facility. The charges […]
Explosion and fire at Ventura apartment
At 5:30am Saturday morning, diagnosis April 18th, Ventura City Fire personnel responded to a reported structure fire secondary to an explosion in an apartment building in the 6600 block of Telephone Rd. The first arriving engine company found an apartment with the front door and windows blown outward, and a dissipating light smoke within. It […]
