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A house blowing up out of nowhere
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this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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Catastrophic Failure
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A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs, such as a head crash occurrence on a hard disk drive. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure. (Wikipedia)
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I don't think it was "out of nowhere" considering there's an alarm going off, and the fire department is out there. Looks like a gas leak that probably hit a pilot light.
The alarms sound like the ones that are on firefighters clothes and go off if they're stationary for a bit.
This is a thing? I never knew that