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Flexible gas lines have virtually replaced immobile iron pipes over the past 30 years. But the flimsier “corrugated stainless steel tubing” — commonly called CSST — can pose a much greater fire risk, ...
If you followed this column for the past year or so, you know that we shared an unrecognized problem for firefighters: corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) used as a gas transmission line in many ...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday signed a bill to strengthen fuel gas piping regulations put in place by an earlier law named for Frederick County Battalion Chief Joshua Laird, who died fighting an ...
Lightning struck a tree and followed the underground propane gas line into the house where it caused the corrugated stainless-steel tubing (CSST) lines to arc and ignite escaping gas that burned the ...