Interesting that though it sounds like there are many more casualties then Boston it is not being reported in the media with any of the same intensity.
The Boston bomb was a crude device made from gunpowder packed into a pressure cooker with ball bearings, shrapnel etc and was designed to shred anyone standing nearby. I doubt that this (if it was a bomb) would have been constructed in the same way.
If its a chemical factory, with all the monitors (air, process etc) around the site they will know exactly what happened and what the likely cause was, these will be monitored on and off site.
Christ almighty, you almost think its only a fire...then booooom. Thats horrific.
The kid's voice towards the end made that video worse. Pure fear and panic. Horrifying situation for them. (Presumably the family were all fine afterwards, otherwise they wouldn't have uploaded the video.)
Firefighters stopped attacking it for fear of another explosion.
The girls voice is weird - she's so so calm (shock I would guess) "Can we just get away from here please. I can't hear anything Dad. Please - just get us out of here."
Watched the news this morning , they said the blast could be heard 45 miles away , 70 homes flattened , went off near a school thankfully it happened at night.
Firefighters stopped attacking it for fear of another explosion.
The girls voice is weird - she's so so calm (shock I would guess) "Can we just get away from here please. I can't hear anything Dad. Please - just get us out of here."
think it has something to do with their accents. quite a slow way of delievring a line.
the guy sounded a bit camp when he said "OH My God" at the end.
I work in the chemical industry so the magnitude of this does not surprise me. As someone said Fertiliser is highly explosive (it is the base material for a lot of improvised explosive devices especially in Afghanistan) and once you get a chain reaction there is nothing to stop it. Back in the late 1990's there was an explosion in a fireworks factory in Enschede in The Netherlands and I saw the after affects of that, whole blocks of houses completely destroyed. In that instance the firte brigade saw what was coming and evacuated the area and by a miracle nobody died but the explosion was heard in Germany 40km away.
Chemical plants are always vulnerable and fire is the greatest fear even with the best retardent systems once the fire gets hold you better start running.
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But, in three days there has been a bomb in Boston, ricin has been sent to the President and now this...
youtube.com/watch?v=ROrpKx3aIjA&feature=youtu.be
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The girls voice is weird - she's so so calm (shock I would guess) "Can we just get away from here please. I can't hear anything Dad. Please - just get us out of here."
the guy sounded a bit camp when he said "OH My God" at the end.
Chemical plants are always vulnerable and fire is the greatest fear even with the best retardent systems once the fire gets hold you better start running.