http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/11/gas.tank.safety/index.html?hpt=T2">Fatal gas tank blast brings calls for better warnings
Carnes, Mississippi (CNN) -- The deaths of two Mississippi teens are about to put a national focus on a little-recognized problem.
Devon Byrd, 16, and Wade White, 18, were killed when a natural gas tank at a well production site exploded last fall in Carnes, in southern Mississippi. Local teenagers said the site is a popular hangout because it's quiet and secluded.
But the dead teens' parents say the explosion could have been prevented if some warning signs had been posted -- "something simple as fences, gates and signs, probably very inexpensive, and certainly a lot less expensive that what a child's life is worth," said White's father, Phillip.
Police say they don't know exactly what ignited flammable vapors inside the tank. When it exploded, the teenagers were killed instantly. Their bodies were found about 40 yards from the tank's base; the tank landed another 20 yards from them. Investigators say they found a lighter, but don't know whether it was involved.
"I couldn't believe that my child was gone," White's mother, Wanda, told CNN.
Dangerous fossil fuel accidents are just
one reason I favor the immediate phase out of dangerous fossil fuels, and of course, the wind industry which is designed to
entrench dangerous fossil fuels, in particular, the dangerous natural gas industry.
Other reasons, more important reasons, include the fact that nobody knows what to do with dangerous fossil fuel waste, and so it is indiscrimately dumped in earth's atomsphere.
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