More than 25 homes were evacuated from Vincent Street and neighbouring Amelia Avenue after an explosion Sunday. Minutes after three fire crews arrived to put out a basement fire in a Vincent Street ...

Robert Brownlee was on the Operation Plumbbob team that launched an object in space before Sputnik. They put a manhole cover above a nuke underground, and the explosion shot the iron cap into space.

A New York woman and her grandchildren escaped unharmed from what was supposed to be a leisurely stroll but almost became a nightmare when manhole cover exploded near them. Video published by the ...

CCTV footage taken in Birmingham shows the moment an exploding manhole cover is hurled upwards, narrowly missing a young girl. The images were released by West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service which ...

A smouldering hydro cable apparently caused a manhole cover to shoot about a metre and a half into the air Sunday morning on Church Street north of The Esplanade. Brown smoke poured from the hole and ...

A pair of heavy manhole covers were blown off in an explosion Sunday morning in downtown Boston, the Boston Globe reports. Cellphone video shows one of the manhole covers violently shooting up into ...

A manhole exploded underneath an occupied New York City MTA bus, sending the nearly 300-pound iron plate cover up through the floor of the bus and hitting a passenger sitting on the bus Tuesday. The ...

Emergency crews rescued an injured woman from a downtown Edmonton manhole Wednesday after the force from an underground explosion blew several manhole covers into the air. The explosion was in an ...

St. Petersburg, Florida firefighters are lucky to have escaped serious injury on Tuesday after a manhole that was billowing smoke suddenly blew up. Video of the incident recorded firefighters ...

The local Super Bowl host committee and the NFL must deal with all manner of security issues when 150,000 people are expected in your city and hundreds of millions will be watching on television You ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. EDMONTON — A woman was taken to hospital Wednesday after she fell down a manhole that had blown open in an ...

When I first saw this story on an old Quora thread, I didn't believe it. It wasn't like that. This manhole cover was shot into space with a nuclear bomb. Robert Brownlee, an astrophysicist who ...