There was an explosion at a UPS facility in Kentucky that has put two people in the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services bus just pulled in to the UPS facility off Blue Sky Parkway @LEX18News pic.twitter.com/fsq4kp1Crf
— Conroy Delouche (@ConroyDelouche) May 30, 2018
The explosion does not appear to be terrorism-related but was the result of two welding tanks that exploded blowing a huge hole in the roof above. Fortunately, no one was in the path of the force that blew the hole in the roof.
The explosion is being investigated as a matter of routine, but there does not seem to be any sort of nefarious acts involved. Accidents happen.
This particular UPS facility is where maintenance is performed on their freighters, so that would explain the large welding tanks and essentially rules out that it could have been a packing being shipped.
Out at UPS Freight on Blue Sky Parkway. Around 20 emergency crews have responded to an explosion. Looks like it happened at the rear of the business. pic.twitter.com/T1pIPKR6gX
— HLpublicsafety (@HLpublicsafety) May 30, 2018
There was a good deal of structural damage to the building that is located just off the Blue Sky Parkway in Kentucky.
An aerial shot from this mornings building explosion. pic.twitter.com/7r5CX8rhYw
— Lexington KY Fire (@LexKYFire) May 30, 2018
According to reports, the two people injured were conscious and talking in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and there was a total of eight people treated for minor injuries
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