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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A manhole explosion caused a big mess in Sunset Park and a dangerous situation for one driver. A 300-pound transformer cover landed on top of a car and smashed the ...

NEW YORK (WCBS) - An Earthcam video shows the moment people began scrambling out of the area just before 7 p.m. Sunday. Con Ed said a power cable failure led to an explosion and fire in a manhole. As ...

Residents in a quiet Virginia neighborhood were jolted from their sleep early Sunday after what sounded like an explosion ripped through the area—sending manhole covers flying and prompting 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 ...