A massive gas explosion leveled a building today in Washington, D.C. Just minutes before the blast, 16 children were evacuated from a nearby day care. NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor reports on the quick thinking by firefighters that saved lives.
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#Explosion #WashingtonDC #Building
Reminds me of Sims City.
Lord Jesus!😱😱😱😰😰😱
Way to go dcfd !!!
The only explosions I’ve seen lately besides this one are from electric cars.
You didn’t see that car explode at the border crossing at Niagara Falls before New Years? You should watch the news.
@@JB-lp9xrThat car was speeding , hit a barrier and literally flew into the air, was quite an explosion 😱
shucks ! Got all excited when the headline said Washington DC building……………..was HOPING it was the WHITE HOUSE !!! What a disappointment
You are the disappointment.
Guys we found a terrorist call the FBI.
That’s disgusting. Work on yourself
middle east has enter u.s.a
Hire Precogs before these events Happen.
Thank you for saving everyone
just another way to take our natural gas products away.
Yeah, mechanical or part failure be damned.
impacted? You mean DEAD? politicians…
Thank God everyone made it out safe. Thank you for your service Firefighters. ❤
When are these idiots going to stop using natural gas? So deadly and un-needed. This product should be illegal!!
What should they use?
Insurance move
Dc is gross and the police are useless losers
Thats a good way to get rid of the snow
Praise the Lord Jesus Christ they may not have been impacted they may have die
Thank you for your service ❤️
What do u expect. MayouBowser wouser u. Are a lousey mayor😮😮
NOBODY BUT GOD!!’n🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾Thank you firefighters for your service and for GETTING THOSE CHILDREN OUT OF THE DAY CARE 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Where was your god when children were being shot down like rabid dogs in their school?
Nobody likes very definitely impacted children.
My body has regular gas leaks and I have yet to explode…
Just wait til you get older!🤣
Im sure this was an accident
Safe natural gas . Nothings further from the truth
Thank God for everything. God is good. Hopefully, From now on, hopefully many, many, many more people will finally believe the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and finally be saved and have everlasting life. Amen. Love.
Shut up. Where was your god when children were being shot down in their classrooms? Spread your false hopes elsewhere.
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A good father doesn’t leave his children.
God didn’t save those children , FIREFIGHTERS DID !!! THANK THE FIREFIGHTERS , GIVE CREDIT WHERE ITS DUE !!!
Mayor looks high! She has no clue and low energy. Whats wrong with
Like Muriel Bowser hasn’t cut funding to public safety. Now she clings to a disaster so as to not let it go to waste. Sickening. #newmayorneeded
It sounded like she couldn’t string a proper sentence together. When will the democrats learn?
Hehe. We get that in Australia all the time. Our convervative slashed our firefighters funding in the years proceeding the Black Summer bushfires and then tried to milk it. Some very vocal firefighters were on camera giving their opinions. Best moment was when our prime minister, who’s part of the same party who’s state government did the slashing, went up to shake hands. One of the locals just pulled his hand away and the prime minister tried to force the handshake… Looked so horrible (good) on camera.
Given his reception on that disaster, his PR team didn’t tell anyone when he showed up for photoshoots during flooding. Just tried to do the media stuff and then run but the locals sniffed him out quickly and got there in time to abuse him on camera.
If you think you can do better than run for mayor , otherwise it’s all conjecture !
@Jenny.Anderson76 Sorry I am not the right color to be D.C mayor. I also do not have the corruption in me. Maybe police chief would fit me better.
*eyeroll* @@dentalnovember
Lots of gas leaks…. See fossil fuels dont burn down houses like battery’s they Blow up the house.
Uggghhh! Anyone else smell the has just listening and reading this story?
We have a major infrastructure issue in this country.
and an issue with safety oversight.
Ummm…a car ran into a gas main and ruptured it.
@@LoriL010 Aren’t gas mains underground.
Okay so I actually got curious about this. SO I looked up the block on street view.
All the establishments have a has line going in and a meter. (Someone hit a meter) none of them are protected all of them face the street.
In front of the daycare is what appears to be the remains of a concrete post possibly in front of the daycare but removed at some point. I tried to look for other pylons but cars blocked views. If there was a pylon there then one could be added again and one should be added in reasonable intervals to prevent vehicles from crashing into the buildings let alone the meter. You could find a dual use purpose for the barriers as well.
All the buildings have a gas hookup presumably natural gas and meter on the front of the building in the lower right corner facing the street @@downstream0114
I love Firefighters my Dad was Captain for the Los Angeles Fire department ❤
Idk that’s kinda sus, a gas leak right next to a daycare filled with children? My gut tells me someone intentionally made that gas leak.
Has the mayor tried to move the city away from gas
Glad everyone is okay
Thanks to the oil and gas industry in Texas 100 years ago who figured out how to put the “stink” in natural gas to warn people there is a gas leak. It’s saved countless lives in history. It’s called Mercaptan…rotten egg smell. Gives people time to get out before it blows up.
Thank you first responders.
Quandale dingle lore
Good job firefighters!! You guys rock!
Sounds like a serial gas leaker is going around. Strangely convenient.
God forbid you turn the gas valve off!!!!!!!
“Duh, if only we’d thought of that, duh… man, we really needed the advice from youtube couch potato commenters!” – first responders
This is horrific. Our wonderful emergency/fire responders… SHAME on local municipalities that are prioritizing illegal entering into the country…instead of these pronouncedly necessary services!!
I heard there are flowers blooming in Antarctica
That is correct, Antarctic Hair Grass and Antarctic Pearlwort
“Quick,to the choppa!”
Are just going to act like all of these building explosions all over America are normal, is no one going to look into this…
Cyber attacks.
A car hit the gas meter
Another daycare? Is this yet another revenge attack for Waco?
this has the CIA written all over it…its no coincidence this happened right before elections🤔
It’s crazy how you can see the one guy who was getting pummeled by debris in the beginning next to the blue truck.
A DAYCARE?! Ok… wow. Now THAT gives an entirely new meaning to a ‘diaper bomb’. :/ And let’s all just have six moments of silence and GRATITUDE that absolutely no one was hurt. I doubt anyone wants to imagine the utter carnage if they’d stalled for another 3-6 minutes. #YIKES #NO_THANCOO!
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This is suspicious AF
To all those praising god 🖕
God didnt save those children !!!
FireFighters saved those kids !!!
Thank God the children are safe ✝️💖
Jesus freaking Christ, give the fire department a medal for saving the day! 🥺
🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁LION c LIKE No. 523
Jeez
A daycare you say? In Washington DC? Right.
They could not stop the leak? They could not shut down the pipe to the building? Unbelievable.
Just guessing it was damaged when the car hit the meter but I’m not sure 🤷🏻♀️
Babies are safe. Don’t care about anything else. 👍👍.
Excellent work, my dudes.
Heroes live there ❤‼️
Seems to be a trend going across the country right now… lots of gas leak explosions. thank God no children were harmed.
Let’s blame Trump
Reeeeeee
They smelled, heard and avoided it in 15 minutes. This was beyond a miracle
You forgot evacuating the children…
That DC mayor, sure is a smart one… “if those children were inside, they would have been impacted.”
Wow lady, glad you’re in charge. What would we all do, without your wise words of wisdom…
and tell us oh wise one what else was she supposed to say to be up to your glorious standards again?
So what should she say? Read the Bible????
@@RichWeigelRather than state the obvious, she could have issued a call to action for gas line inspections by the gas company and/or city or reiterated the need for people to be diligent in hearing or smelling a gas leak. She could have memorized the phone number to report a gas leak before she went on stage and said that. I can think of 10 other things she could have done with her time on camera that would have been more constructive and useful than stating the obvious as she did. But I’m not going to spell them out for someone that’s here to just sling mud and speak sarcasms. You know what she said was pointless, and you know she could have said many other useful things, but you blindly defend her… Why? I suggest some self-reflection on that. You don’t exhibit critical thought, and it’s becoming a bit of a mental health crisis in this country. A crisis of ignorance, I would call it.
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funny this is so common lately… when it never was before yall tried to ban gas stoves. let me guess, now this will be more and more common until they brainwash the sheep that stoves arent safe. we arent stupid anymore we see what you are doing!
Good Job to the Good Samaritan that Noticed the smell of the Gas Leak. But the Fire Fighters got Everyone outta Harms Way too. Great to Have Firemen who Keep The Public SAFE!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗
They are after our children God help us all
God had nothing to do with it, I thank the first responders
Cool awesome
FIREFIGHTERS ROCK! from a family of red and blue!!!!
A lot of gas explosions lately.
Now those are first responders who know what they’re doing!
Bowser is a joke. Accountability is her kryptonite.
Democrats 😮
So many explosions, gas related, all over the US.
Why isn’t Biden giving funding to make the US safe?
Gum.
Gas leaks are no joke.
As our infrastutcture continues to decay, expect more events like this. Every time you drive over a bridge, you have to wonder if your car will be the one that breaks it. And maintain your buildings. Building are machines that need regular inspection and maintenance. I know, nobody cares anymore.
Old building old gas pipes. This happens in all cities. No one inspects these gas pipes annually and this is what happens.
Thank you white men.
You SEE? God IS good! Amen 🙏
Firefighters don’t get nearly enough pay or gratitude. My father is celebrating 50 years in his district this year and he really is the toughest man I know! He’s still an active fighter too! I can’t imagine the horrible things he has witnessed. But he says that for every awful scene, he remembers that there are also a lot of great saves and miracles. 🇺🇸❤️💚💙
The mayor is so phony!!!
I mean, it’s south east DC. Expectations were not high.
Dang, good job guys. And look, instant urban renewal!
Thanx to the firefighters, but…
If they could smell the gas from the street, why did people need firefighters to tell anyone to evacuate?
Shouldn’t that have already happened?
I mean, was it: “Hey, smell that gas? This probably isn’t great for these kids to breath and could be dangerous… Let’s wait to see with the Fire Department says.”
Either way, glad no one was seriously hurt!
If it’s in Anacostia, then this place isn’t that far from a massive DC sanitation plant. Wouldn’t be too crazy to assume any nasty smell outside is the result of unfortunate wind direction.
Feel like they dont care about the kids…..
I knew it was SE… 🥱
Aging infrastructure…..more of this will happen in many cities
I believe the quality of the comments here is a more serious concern than even the decay of infrastructure.
“Not anymore”
Gas leak confirmed!
why are so many building and houses exploding now
Gas lines in all major cities are going. Been getting worse as I started seeing and smelling work being done on lines since 2011. Philadelphia too.
As awful as life has been lately, this is the first time in a long time I have felt relief in knowing the people inside made it out ok.
God bless the quick thinking Emergency personnel who without a doubt prevented a tragedy.
Clintons up to something AGAIN!
Insurance scam
Pus it ole
Highway patrol heading for tv part the same part that in my car no deal
Not luck we are blessed 🙏
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