Domino’s Pizza in Salt Lake City experiences a surprising explosion.

For the people don’t wanna look around to find what happened, a car ran into the back of the building and hit a gas line

Did people die?

There are injuries. It’s a currently developing story. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2025/07/05/evacuations-herriman-after-two/

They advertise that the story will be ready in 60 minutes or less or it’s free.

Sad. Used to be 30 minutes.

Omg bravo

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Looks like the building was on fire for a bit before the explosion. There may have been time for the driver to get out before the kablam.

You know there are two types of people in the world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

What’s the other kind of person? ;]

Those who like to ice skate? I hate logic puzzles.

Incidently, this also bolsters the generally accepted theory that there are actually 3 types of people: 1. Those who can count 3. Those who can’t count Edit: bit aside, TIL reddit doesn’t let you list things out of order and shadow-corrects on your behalf in the comments (at least on mobile). Not really chill of you, reddit.

There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.

And those who count in Base-3

I count in **balanced ternary**. Just kidding, I am a duodecimalist, I can count up to 156 on my fingers.

…and you can count on me, waiting for you, in the Dominos parking lot.

>kablam Hopefully Prometheus and Bob are ok.

The driver and passenger were removed by courageous bystanders, article says. I’m more worried about the Dominoes employees

“Two courageous bystanders risked their lives to rescue the driver and passenger from the burning vehicle just moments before it was engulfed in flames,” the spokesperson wrote on X.

Considering the whole building exploded, the crash didnt cause the explosion, it caused a gas leak that filled the building, so likley everyone evacauted. It depends on the drivers injuries if they were able to get out.

Ya there’s a Jimmy John’s and I’m sure the pizza oven was on too after the crash. No one’s running around trying to hit gas valves or turn off equipment after an accident like that. Enough gas fills up and hits a red hot element or pilot light and that’s a wrap.

In the event of a gas leak, you **don’t** turn off appliances or lights or anything — you just evacuate. Even turning off a light switch can cause a spark, which can ignite the gas if its concentration is between the lower explosive limit (LEL) and upper explosive limit (UEL). Even if you drive into a gas meter, you don’t turn the car off, you just run. Then you notify 911 and your gas company’s 24/7 emergency dispatch.

Great advice, but I have the gigabrain move. You turn on every gas valve to maximum. Get the propane tank and just whack the regulator off that bad boy. While the simps are trying to stay under LEL, us pimps know that’s a fools errand. We are going so far past the UEL that combustion is impossible. When the buildings air resembles Uranus’s atmosphere you’ve made the building safe and can continue working your shift.

Who knows though, strip malls always seem like cheap, hastily constructed symptoms of urban sprawl. Depending on the vehicle and whether it slammed through the ever present wall of windows or the usually at least exterior brick facade I could see the driver surviving the initial crash. I’m curious if the adjacent shops didn’t evacuate and people got caught unaware of how much more serious things were about to get.

Fucking hate strip malls, and I hate when cities are set up around them. They make it impossible to walk anywhere. They’re ugly, they’re boring. I dreamt of moving to Florida and when I went down there to look at apartments, I was very disappointed to see that a lot of the cities were completely unwalkable and were just basically endless identical plain, drab strip malls with tire shops and nail salons. A lot of New Hampshire can be the same way too. Not a fan.

As of now I don’t believe there was anyone in there. Fire fighters have been there but no casualties reported

That’s amazing news!

It was a 3-car accident that sent one of the cars into the Domino’s. Bystanders pulled the two occupants out before the building exploded. Definitely amazing news!

I assume fire fighters always make sure the gas to a building has been turned off before running in, right?

Depends on if they wanna play novice or hard difficulty