Cause of Minneapolis Explosion Still Unknown

Fire and incendiary experts investigating the Minneapolis explosion early this morning are still stumped as to its cause:

The massive blast quickly resulted in a three-alarm blaze which then all but totaled a three-storey apartment building close to the university. 

Putting that fire out was additionally hampered by the intensity of 20-foot flames and sub-zero temperatures.

Over a dozen victims of the Minneapolis explosion have now been hospitalized, police say, with nearly half of those people being treated for critical injuries.

Firetrucks and cop cruisers arrived shortly after the initial explosion to find a number of frantic residents jumping from the engulfed building's upper windows.

No fatalities have been reported yet, but a spokesperson for fire-and-rescue warned that not all the occupants of the commercial building have been accounted for yet.

At the time this story went to press, the suspicious Minnesota conflagration has been brought under control. However, inspectors say the top floors collapsed and the entire site is too unstable to conduct a search for remains.

City records indicate there were ten rental units in the heavily damaged structure. All but one had tenants in them.

This story is developing; bookmark for updates.

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CSI SUNDAY: Was 9-11 a Controlled Demolition?

Without much doubt, the 9-11 destruction of the Twin Towers displayed "all of the characteristics of destruction by explosives," says an organization of architects and engineers bent on getting the truth out:

1. Destruction proceeds through the path of greatest resistance at nearly free-fall acceleration;
 
2. Improbable symmetry of debris distribution;
 
3. Extremely rapid onset of destruction;
 
4. Over 100 first responders reported explosions and flashes;
 
5. Multi-ton steel sections ejected laterally;
 
6. Mid-air pulverization of 90,000 tons of concrete & metal decking;
 
7. Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like clouds;
 
8. 1200-foot-diameter debris field: no "pancaked" floors found;
 
9. Isolated explosive ejections 20–40 stories below demolition front;
 
10. Total building destruction: dismemberment of steel frame;
 
11. Several tons of molten metal found under all 3 high-rises;
 
12. Evidence of thermite incendiaries found by FEMA in steel samples;

13. Evidence of explosives found in dust samples...

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Is Castaic Lake Burning Man Bryce Laspisa?

Firefighters responding to a brush fire in Castaic Lake CA yesterday found a burning man instead. But whether it's Bryce Laspisa, missing in that same area since last week, is still unknown because the body was torched  beyond recognition.

The 19-year-old college student last spoke with his mother via a cellphone call that was made in the vicinity of Castaic Lake. He told her he was tired of driving and intended to pull over someplace to sleep before resuming his journey homeward.

And that was the last time anybody heard from him.

Police have been searching the region ever since a Castaic parks visitor discovered the SUV Bryce Laspisa was driving that night overturned in a ravine close to the lakefront. 

Laspisa's wallet, phone and other belongings were untouched inside, investigators said, but there was a busted out window and blood throughout the vehicle, presumably his.

Yesterday this mystery deepened considerably with the finding of a burning man only a few miles from the missing teen's last known location. His parents are anxiously awaiting for a formal ID of that victim now, but say the coroner should already know whether or not it's their son because he always wears a retainer on his bottom teeth.

In the interim police have vowed to continue the quest to find Bryce Laspisa, although the trail has long grown cold, they claim.

Adding yet another twist to an already twisted case is their admission that patrol officers, at the behest of his mother, encountered and questioned Laspisa just a few short hours before he vanished...

Bryce Laspisa is a Caucasian male about 5-feet 10-inches tall and 160 pounds. He has blue eyes and short-cropped red hair and was reportedly dressed in summer clothing when he disappeared.

Anyone with any information about this missing persons case or that of the burning man's is asked to call homicide investigators at 323-890-5500.

Eponymous Rox
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