TWO ESCAPE HARM IN VOLATILE CRASH.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer A woman visiting from Idaho drove off a road and crashed into a mobile home Wednesday morning, landing atop a 25-gallon propane propane, CH3CH2CH3, colorless, gaseous alkane. It is readily liquefied by compression and cooling. It melts at −189.9°C; and boils at −42.2°C;. tank. Nobody was injured, and there was no serious damage, but firefighters for a time called the incident highly volatile. Angela Blankenship, 60, of Nampa, Idaho Nampa (IPA: [næm pə]) is the largest city in Canyon County, Idaho, United States, and the second largest in the state. Only the capital city, Boise, is larger. , was driving southbound south·bound adj. Going toward the south. southbound Adjective going towards the south Adj. 1. on San Francisquito Canyon Road shortly after 9 a.m. when she lost control of her vehicle on a dirt embankment and it crashed through a large cactus cactus, any plant of the family Cactaceae, a large group of succulents found almost entirely in the New World. A cactus plant is conspicuous for its fleshy green stem, which performs the functions of leaves (commonly insignificant or absent), and for the spines (not and a fence, destroying the kitchen of a mobile home. ``The big problem was that she sheared sheared adj. Shaped or finished by shearing, especially cut or trimmed to a uniform length: a sheared fur coat. Adj. 1. the top of the propane tank,'' said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County fire Sgt. Mike Flocks. ``It was leaking. We had to cut off power to the mobile home.'' Blankenship, who carries oxygen with her for health purposes, suffered a scratch but was otherwise uninjured. Esmeralda Valenzuela was inside the mobile home when it was hit. ``I feel lucky because I was in the house,'' Valenzuela said in Spanish through a translator. ``I heard a thump and saw a car in the trailer.'' Only moments before the crash, the 33-year-old woman was drinking coffee in the kitchen but had just gotten up and moved to another part of the mobile home. Valenzuela, who works as a caretaker at the La Noria Ranch, lives in the mobile home with her husband and their two children. CAPTION(S): Photo, Map Photo: Two women escaped injury when an out-of-control vehicle crashed through a large cactus and a fence, destroying the kitchen of a mobile home. David Crane/Staff Photographer Map: Site of crash |
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