Bleve 07
Bleve 07 : Incidents: The term "BLEVE" was coined by three researchers at Factory Mutual, in the analysis of an accident there in 1957 involving a chemical reactor vessel. In August 1959 the Kansas City Fire Department was hit with its largest ever loss of life in the line of duty, when a 25,000 gallon (95,000 litre) gas tank exploded during a fire on Southwest Boulevard killing five firefighters. This was the first time BLEVE was used to describe a burning fuel tank. Later incidents included the Cheapside Street Whisky Bond Fire in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960; Feyzin, France in 1966; Crescent City, Illinois in 1970; Kingman, Arizona in 1973; Texas City, Texas in 1978;Murdock, Illinois in 1983; and San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City in 1984. In 11 July 1978, a BLEVE occurred with an ethylene tank truck in the Los Alfaques Disaster in Spain. In 2010 in Bialystok inPoland fire after train crash caused two explosions of two tank wagons with diesel fuel
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