The gasoline ignited a fireball that raced more than a mile down a creek.
A powerful bomb ripped apart an Israeli commuter bus in northern Galilee early Sunday morning, igniting a fireball that left 9 people dead and wounded 45, beginning a burst of widespread Palestinian violence that defied Israel's tough crackdown.
A powerful bomb ripped apart an Israeli commuter bus in northern Galilee, igniting a fireball that killed 9 people and wounded 45, beginning a burst of Palestinian violence that defied Israel's tough crackdown.
On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, an explosion on the rig caused by a blowout killed 11 crewmen and ignited a fireball visible from 40 mile away.
On Monday night, the track's crew used six 14-pound boxes in the cleanup after Juan Pablo Montoya's car crashed into a track jet dryer, causing as much as 200 gallons of jet fuel to ignite into a fireball.
During an impact, these short hydrocarbons readily form a cloud of tiny fuel droplets that can ignite, producing a fireball.
A small plane crashed into a sheet metal shop today, killing six of the seven people on board and igniting a huge fireball that sent workers scrambling for safety, the authorities said.
If the evaporated liquid is combustible and gets ignited, a huge fireball will most often be generated.
In June , 1999 the failure of computer control systems caused a gasoline pipeline rupture in Bellingham, in Washington State; the leaking gasoline ignited into a fireball, killing three people.
At 9.07am on 1 September, a SpaceX rocket containing 75,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and rocket-grade kerosene ignited into a fireball that could be seen from orbit, billowing black smoke into the gray sky around its Cape Canaveral launch pad.
