Person and on social media as well how is it no one was injured or killed . It is a miracle. But Devine Intervention hadding in to do with it. The video merits another look. A fire near the construction site two 1,000pound propane tanks started a chain reaction. When bodes tanks started to be engulfed by fire one ruptured and blew through the building and caused the other one to blow away from the building. Reporter workers tell us they heard a hissing noise before the explosion which gave them time to get out. Workers nearby confirmed that. A few minutes before the big explosion we felt rumbling and we didnt think it was thunder and the huge explosion. Everything shook. The windows shook. And you could smell gas. Reporter other workers took to their cell phones in a parking garage to call loved ones to let them know no one was injured. Workers and shoppers compared notes and stories what they saw. Flames coming out of the propane tank and then an enormous explosion. Reporter as compel
News 4 at 6 00, ill it will you about two key things police say might have prevented this teenager from becoming a victim. Live from arlington, julie carey, news4. Now to a story we first told you first on 4, we are talking act a systemwide slowdown on metro. The Transit Agency says the speed restrictions are in place now because of the potential for rails cracking from this cold. Our transportation reporter adam tuss first told you about this breaking this story this afternoon on twitter. Hes now live outside the station at Reagan National. Adam . Reporter metro says this is a proactive move slowing down trains so things like cracked rails dont happen. Lets take a look at the Reagan National station. Theres a speed restriction about a mile south of here between Reagan National and the braddock road station, and yet this could change how long your commute takes. Metro technicians ride the rails in a sophisticated machine called the track geometry vehicle. It studies the rails and sends
Did. Reporter coming up on news4 at 6, it became quite clear during this press conference that investigators still have a lot of questions about what exactly sparked this fire and why it went up so quickly. Well have more coming up on what theyre going to be doing to answer some of those questions. Were reporting live from anne arundel county. Doug frigid temperatures today. Now were hearing windchills into the single digit snz. Theyve been in the teens today and into the low 20 rz. Temperatures on the cold side, the average high 44. This is where we were today, 38. Thats all we could get, 36 in frederick. It didnt even feel that warm with the winds gusting 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour today. Take a look at the current windchill, 28 in d. C. , 21 gaithersburg, 31 in culpeper and 24 toward winchester. The wind will continue to stay up through the evening hours but then start to die down moving through the evening. If youre out and about this evening, it is going to be a cold one, 34 by 7 00,