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Subject: gas explosion devastated a tiny Caribbean island.

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larry

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Date Posted: 10:49:56 12/29/06 Fri

if only thay had been showen then green way and set up a wind genarator and solar cells. the hole iland would still be above the sea.

The island blown up by a gas cooker

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=425257&in_page_id=1770

This was the astonishing scene after a faulty gas cooker exploded in a timber-framed shack - and devastated a tiny Caribbean island.

The blast caused an inferno that leapt from hut to hut, taking less than ten minutes to sweep across half the shanty town-style community.

As gas cylinders in more wooden homes exploded, many of Soledad Miria's 1,014 inhabitants dived into the sea or took to fishing boats to escape.

More than a third - 348 - were injured but, amazingly, no one died.

By the time firefighting helicopters had put out the blaze on the 800-yard-wide island off Panama's northern coast, around 50 huts, a school and a community centre had been flattened.

Officials said a faulty connection between the cooker and a gas canister led to a build-up of fumes which exploded when a resident switched the appliance on to cook a meal.

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Re: gas explosion devastated a tiny Caribbean island.	Duncan7	06:34:15 12/31/06 Sun