CSST pipe, installed in many homes, can ignite if struck by lightning. Oct. 16, 2007 — -- An estimated 2 million homes have a kind of pipe that can explode in flames during a lightning storm, but ...

Perry also encouraged further education on the need to properly bond yellow CSST in houses that contain the product Yellow CSST is a flexible metal gas tubing which has been installed in over seven ...

Reported incidents of fires resulting from lightning strikes near structures containing corrugated stainless steel gas piping have resulted in a debate within both the lightning protection and CSST ...

For three months, NBC 5 Investigates looked at the safety of flexible gas lines known as CSST, corrugated stainless steel tubing. It’s a product used in millions of newer homes and is approved for use ...

NBC 5 contacted two other companies who produce corrugated stainless steel tubing to see what they had to say regarding the safety of their product when it comes to lightning strikes. Their replies ...

CEDAR FALLS. Iowa --- Local fire officials and the state fire marshal are warning homeowners about a possible fire danger in their homes. A type of flexible gas pipeline that became common more than a ...

Many think their homes are safe havens in a thunderstorm. That's what Cliff and Charlene Nutter thought -- until the early hours of June 26, when lightning hit the vent cap of their chimney, igniting ...

All gas piping materials, equipment, and systems are prone to damage from lightning strikes — though this is a rare occurrence. However, because of its thinner wall, yellow-jacketed corrugated ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Brennen Teel was 31 years old when he died in a house explosion in Lubbock in 2012 after lightning struck the garage he was inside taking cover from a thunderstorm. According to a fire ...

Q–The natural gas lines being installed in our new home are not heavy black iron pipe. They are a new flexible stainless steel piping system installed like electrical wire. What is this material? Is ...

EXTON, Pa., June 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Omega Flex, Inc., (Nasdaq:OFLX) the preeminent international producer of quality engineered flexible metallic products, today announced it will transition ...