The explosion to which I'm referring took place this past Monday at a Veolia Environmental Services chemical plant located in West Carrollton, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. According to the Dayton Daily News, Tim Spradlin, the Ohio fire marshal's chief explosion investigator called it "the largest industrial explosion I’ve seen.” This was no dumpster fire. Homes were rattled all over south Dayton. Flames shot hundreds of feet into the air and the fire could be seen from miles away. Amazingly, no one died. See the full story at the Dayton Daily News website. It happened at night and it obviously scared the living daylights out of area residents.
Last I checked, Kip was shipped up to Youngstown to work since his Dayton office was flattened. No word yet on his long term prospects.
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5 comments:
Yikes, glad more people weren't hurt!
Keel
Oh my goodness - that's amazing!
(I fantasize about my workplace exploding into a ball of fire everyday. With no one in it, of course.)
Kip had Mexican for lunch again?
That's insane. Do they know what happened yet?
Yeah, Kip said hey only recycle alkaline batteries, but I made him take my old rechargables too. See, when you mix cadmium, lithium and a base (alkaline) you get... um... a bipolar, Easter-candy eating pyromaniac?
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