A fire ripped through a building on Route 9 in Brookline, Massachusetts, igniting compressed air tanks at a scuba diving shop on the first floor. Brookline Fire says one employee suffered minor burn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An employee at East Coast Divers in Brookline was burned and a firefighter was injured in a fire fueled by compressed air tanks.

Study the physics, do the math, and a 40-gallon compressed air tank pressurized to 100 psi has the explosive power of a stick of dynamite. Depending on circumstances, that’s enough to blow all four ...