Exploding Cylinders
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SparticleBrane
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Yeah, we had a propane supply facility fire up around Columbus, Ohio several years ago. The news helo's got some pretty fantastic footage of the tanks and cylinders going off. At the same time, a gas station caught on fire a short distance away, having nothing to do with the propane fires. Pretty exciting day for the fire dudes though.
Wow! Is that Texas or Iraq?
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ZzzKing
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jiveturkey:
It is within a couple of hundred feet of the intersection of the two busiest interstates that go through downtown Dallas. The two freeways were closed most of the day but were open when I went through about 10pm. The rubble was still smoldering.
The big explosions were thought to be acetaline. These threw large steel cylinders hundreds of feet in the air. There were a lot containing O2, also. They didn't really explode that violently, but their burst disks would go and they would spew flames until empty.
Downtown was covered by falling ash.
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