Chadeaux
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- Sep 13, 2011
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Workers were supposed to be dismantling the closed plant when a cutting torch started a fire which lead to several explosions. I even have some video of huge pieces falling from the sky.
I work about 1 mile south of the plant, and our lawn is covered with debris from the plant's tank insulation etc.
Here's a picture of one of the pieces that traveled more than a mile in the air today --- the "dot" is a zincoln (once again, it's useful for scale!)
For a while, they were thinking they might have to evacuate the town because it looked like the fire would spread to the GP Chemical Division plant a couple hundred yards away.
I took a few pics on the way home. I couldn't get close for pics, these are from about 1/2 mile away:
I closed up early because both my coworker and myself were getting sore throats from the fumes that were coming into the store. On the way home I snapped this picture from about two miles away.
For a while they thought they were going to have to evacuate the town because of the toxic fumes and the continuing explosions, but things seem to have quieted down for a while.
I work about 1 mile south of the plant, and our lawn is covered with debris from the plant's tank insulation etc.
Here's a picture of one of the pieces that traveled more than a mile in the air today --- the "dot" is a zincoln (once again, it's useful for scale!)
For a while, they were thinking they might have to evacuate the town because it looked like the fire would spread to the GP Chemical Division plant a couple hundred yards away.
I took a few pics on the way home. I couldn't get close for pics, these are from about 1/2 mile away:
I closed up early because both my coworker and myself were getting sore throats from the fumes that were coming into the store. On the way home I snapped this picture from about two miles away.
For a while they thought they were going to have to evacuate the town because of the toxic fumes and the continuing explosions, but things seem to have quieted down for a while.