Manhole cover blown out of Somerville street in explosion, lands in roof of triple-decker home By WBZ-News Staff Updated on: May 11, 2023 / 6:20 PM EDT / CBS Boston ...

The explosion happened around 8:15 a.m. in the area of 50 Florida St., officials said in a statement. “The manhole cover was blown off and there was fire inside the manhole,” officials said.

A manhole cover in downtown Detroit exploded in the street after a build-up of pressure in the sewer system underground Friday afternoon, knocking back a woman who was walking on a sidewalk nearby.

A birthday celebration in Detroit ended with a trip to the hospital after a 3-year-old suffered burns all over her body.

Crews responded to the 300 block of North Charles Street to find smoke coming from multiple manhole covers and fire emitting from one manhole cover, the Baltimore Office of Emergency Management said.

Look at the ground as you walk on 14th Street in downtown Sacramento and you might spot artifacts from a bygone era of craftsmanship in the form of manhole covers. The street is dotted with at ...

Moore has a 1994 book, “Manhole Covers” by Mimi Melnick and Robert A. Melnick in which Berry’s Foundry is featured. Those Sacramento-casted covers have also inspired beer coasters.

We once asked Mark Schlemmer, a city DPW senior engineer, about the manhole covers. The covers are originally set just below the blacktop so snow plows won’t catch them and damage the plow, the ...

Sainz appeared to run over the manhole cover just nine minutes into the practice on the street course that stretches down the famed Strip. It caused the Ferrari to bottom out and potentially destroyed ...

The city honored these turtle boys with a commemorative manhole cover on 28 Union St., as well as a state historical highway marker placed at Central Avenue.

Elgin is asking artists to turn manhole covers into works of art. With the DuPage Court courtyard receiving all new underground infrastructure, shade structures, landscape and seating, the idea is … ...