Well, the unusual news just keeps coming.  Over the long weekend there was a fire on a drill site in Pennsylvania.  Rice Energy was fracking a well and a fire started in one of the frack trucks.   Four frack trucks were damaged along with six frack pumps.

A couple that lives less than 200 yards from the site (poor guys) said the explosion shook the house.  They had lots of neighbors calling to tell them to evacuate, and they did.

16 fire departments responded, most of them to provide water through their pumper trucks.

It’s just a reminder that even though (most) oil and gas companies go out of their way to make things safe, accidents still happen.  Make sure if you sign a lease or a surface use agreement that you consider what will happen if something catastrophic happens.  Think about how much light the drill rig will put off at night, how much noise the flaring operation will make, how much noise the daily operations will make, how much dust and noise all the trucks will bring, and how the operation might affect any unique aspects of your everyday life.