*Breaking news* Waco, Texas explosions

Accidents happen all the time, Americans aren't exactly the most safety conscious people. Those big grain elevators blow up quite often too.
 
Rossi~ said:
Which is in the Waco area and being dealt with by Waco police etc.
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Looking at the map, Waco is a city... which I hadn't actually realised (Almost the same population as Plymouth)... so it's a fair link I suppose. I'll admit I was thinking the OP was trying to stir it a bit.
 
Considering a lot of the chemicals that go into fertiliser also go in to explosives (potassium nitrate for example) and considering a plant like that would be processing countless tons of the stuff. You have the makings of a humungous kablooey as it is.
Of course it's a crime scene, about 70 people are dead I hear. The company could be criminally negligent or anything.

Look up the video of the factory that made the solid rocket fuel for the space shuttle. Now THAT was a kablooey!
 
gillywibble said:
Hu:Drrah for sanity!
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:D According to the law of Hot Fuzz....

[Sergeant Angel has told Danny Butterman that Official Vocabulary no longer refers to car crashes as accidents: They are now called collisions]
Danny Butterman: Hey, why can't we say "accident," again?
Nicholas Angel: Because "accident" implies there's nobody to blame.

The investigators will do their job and work out what the hell happened.
 
That sure was some explosion. Lucky for the father and his daughter they were not closer. Who'd of thought a fire would have resulted in such a huge explosion. Many onlookers could have easily been drawn in for a closer look / video and ended up dead. I'm sure we'd of all stopped for a good look, like you do. I suspect the death toll will be high, given the distance they were and the size of that explosion. I wonder if the FD would have known to just stay away, or if they sent teams in to fight the fire. Tricky decision for the chief, no doubt.
 
doofski said:
You'd think they wouldn't be able to have the factory so close to residential buildings or vise versa...
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I'm pretty sure that the housing is that of the workers, my understanding is that it's a HUGE factory employing more than 1200 people :eek:

But still yeah, they should have been housed much further away from obvious explosive hazzards :(
 
doofski said:
You'd think they wouldn't be able to have the factory so close to residential buildings or vise versa...
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Not quite on the same scale but i remember us all being evacuated down in Dumfries in the 80's when an old World War hanger used by Gate's rubber company as storage caught fire, it was right beside the Heathhall and Locharbriggs estates filled to the rafters with chemicals (the actual factory was right slap bang in the middle of them lol). I don't remember much but i remember the sky being completely filled with smoke and the air was nasty, everything was covered with ash when they let us go home a couple of days later.

It couldn't have been that bad as we were only evacuated a couple of miles away to the town center but still, that was minor in comparison to this and the mind boggles why they still insist on having such hazardous materials so close to residential areas. You'd think that even a 0.0001% (whatever number) chance of something bad happening would be enough to discourage them.
 
NZB said:
It couldn't have been that bad as we were only evacuated a couple of miles away to the town center but still, that was minor in comparison to this and the mind boggles why they still insist on having such hazardous materials so close to residential areas. You'd think that even a 0.0001% (whatever number) chance of something bad happening would be enough to discourage them.
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I used to work on a factory site which dealt with potentially explosive material and had a large solvents plant. The danger area set out in the Emergency Action Plan was a 1 mile radius. Residential estates to the north & west and a primary school across the road from the solvents plant! The factory was there first though.
 
I used to have to go into a mass storage solvents room in Birmingham. It always freaked me out thinking about going in there, with all the signs up talking about static discharge etc (eek!).
 
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Proof it was the government has surfaced.
 
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