Explosion

MYTON -- Authorities say one person is dead and two people are injured after a storage tank exploded in an eastern Utah oil field.

EVANSTON, Wyo. -- A natural gas storage site in southwestern Wyoming exploded in flames but no one was hurt, as firefighters waited for daylight to tackle the blaze, officials said Sunday.

WEST, Texas -- The neighborhood surrounding a Texas fertilizer plant that erupted in a thunderous explosion is gone, and the residents here know they've lost more than the buildings that went up in flames.

WEST, Texas -- Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris or bodies of the dead. The accident killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others.

TOOELE — Authorities say two people have serious burns after an explosion at a titanium processing plant in Tooele County.

HAWTHORNE, Nev. -- Hundreds of residents in a rural community steeped in military history turned out to mourn the loss of at least seven Marines as investigators arrived at an ammunition depot to try to determine how a mortar shell exploded at the Nevada base and sent shrapnel flying into troops during a training exercise.