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"A tanker rig overturned and burst into flames
yesterday evening on a curving interstate ramp over Baltimore's
South Hanover Street, killing the driver and sending a burning
stream of its load of ethanol into the street below, igniting a
row of parked vehicles, authorities said.
The wreckage burned for more than three hours as
firefighters sprayed water and foam into the flames -- with the
driver's body still in the truck cab...."
...Apparently no other vehicles were involved in the crash,
Green said. But seven vehicles parked below, north of the ramp
along the west side of Hanover, caught fire and were heavily
damaged as burning ethanol flowed down the gutters.
Anthony Mapili, 33, who lives three blocks away, recalled a series
of explosions. He looked toward the ramp and saw his 1992
Pontiac Sunbird and the six other vehicles being ignited by the
burning stream.
"One by one, the vehicles caught fire," Mapili
said. As they did, their tires exploded, said Betty Ewing, 69,
who was sitting on her front porch when she heard the explosion.
"It was boom, boom, boom, and then there were a lot of
fire and smoke," Ewing said...."
Tanker overturns, bursts into flames on ramp
Engineers examine damage to I-95 interchange after fatal, fiery
crash by Richard
Irwin and Arin Gencer, Baltimore Sun, May 14,
2007
(Click to read)
Lightning
Strike Starts Fire At Refinery, video at KOKO.com,
Oklahoma City, April 27, 2007
(Click to view)
Also:
Refinery blows its top on CNN.com,
April 28, 2008
(Click to view)
Also: "...The fire
caused a huge explosion at around 8:30 Friday night, causing
many residents in the area to flee their homes in fear of the
fire spreading after highly flammable liquid spilled out of a
tank....
...moments later the second tank went up in flames in a
second explosion, which was felt as far away as Sulphur,
according to some reports....
...“The biggest threat from a fire like this is if the walls of
the tank collapse it could spill what is being stored in the
tank,” he said Friday afternoon.
Hampton said the tank was storing a “gasoline component” at the
time of the lightning strike....
This was the second fire at the Wynnewood Refinery in less
than a year. Last May an explosion in a gasoline producing unit
took days to burn out and caused the evacuation of several
residents living near the plant...."
Wynnewood inferno: Fire scorches refinery; Massive fire started
by lightning strike by Jeff
Shultz, Pauls
Valley Daily Democrat (Pauls Valley, Okla.), Published: April
28, 2007
(Click to read)
"In addition to
the question of odors, the plant will store (according to E85)
2.8 million gallons of ethanol, 105,000 gallons of gasoline,
150,000 pounds of sulfuric acid, 50,000 lbs. of caustic sodium
hydroxide, 11,000 pounds of phosphoric acid, 190,000 pounds of
urea and 98,000 pounds of ammonia. It could generate nearly
1,000 tractor-trailer visits a week or hundreds of rail-car
arrivals and departures. It will use more than a thousand
gallons of municipal water a minute and put millions of gallons
of effluent-laden water through local sewer plants. Those
figures are filled with questions about environmental and
infrastructural impacts, and what they will cost the
community...."
Commissioners must seek good answers about ethanol plant
from the Fayetteville Observer, Fayetteville,
NC, March 17, 2007
(Click to read)
"NEW BRIGHTON,
Pennsylvania — A freight train derailed and burst into flames
over a bridge in southwestern Pennsylvania, leaving fiery rail
cars dangling over a river, authorities said....
...The eastbound, 80-car Norfolk Southern Railroad train
was carrying ethanol when it
derailed above the Beaver River at about 10:50 p.m. Friday, said
Norfolk Southern spokesman Rudy Husband...."
Freight Train Derails, Catches Fire While Crossing River Near
Pittsburgh from FOXNews.com,
by Associated Press,
October 21, 2006
(Click to read)
Wreck cuts train link by
Andrew Conte, Rick Wills and
Joe Napsha, For the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review,
October 22, 2006
(Click to read and see photos)
"...A spokesman for
the Beaver County 911 center said the train included about 80
cars, some of which were tankers loaded
with liquid ethanol, an alternative fuel.
"Some of the cars were carrying liquid ethanol and some did
catch on fire," the spokesman said...."
Train derailment in New Brighton sparks fire, explosion,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 20, 2006,
(Click to read)
Explosion rocks biodiesel plant, Meridian man killed
KTVB.COM & Associated Press
Boise, Idaho
"...The resulting fire destroyed the building....
...Blue Sky Biodiesel had not yet opened for business but was
expected to in the coming weeks....
...More than a dozen nearby homes and businesses were evacuated
as a precautionary measure. It is not known if the fumes from
the fire are toxic.
...The facility was
originally scheduled to open two months ago, but was delayed by
safety concerns...."
(Click to read entire story)
"Two workers at an Army ammunition plant were presumed dead
after an explosion Monday, officials said.
The blast at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant destroyed a
bay extending from the main building, which was also damaged.
The cause had not been released Monday night...."
Two Presumed Dead in Blast at Iowa Plant
Middletown, Iowa, ABCNews.com,
June 12, 2006
(Click to read article)
Also read:
Two injured, two presumed dead in Iowa munitions plant explosion
by Abby Simons,
DesMoines Register, June 12, 2006
(Click to read article)
Map showing the areas that would require immediate evacuation
and stay indoors actions should an accident, explosion, or spill
occur on the Penn-Mar Ethanol distillery site:
All map files are very large
(high-speed connections will work best)
and may take some time to form.
- Map
with 2.5 miles
(Immediate Evacuation) and
5 miles
(Stay Indoors)
radiuses
(Click to view in pdf)
- Map of the immediate area around the Penn-Mar
proposed distillery site marked.
(Click to view in pdf)
- Map of Franklin County with 2.5 miles and 5 miles areas.
This is a very large file for high-speed connections only and it
will still take some time to view.
(Click here for map)
-
Also see chemicals and hazardous materials that would be stored
at the site. (Click)
Pages with
information about evacuation areas from Penn-Mar
Ethanol's Emergency Response Plan submitted for their proposed Conoy Township,
Lancaster County distillery
(Click)
Excerpt from
Proposed ethanol plant details emergency-response plan
by Ad Crable, Lancaster New Era showing map of
evacuation areas.
(Click)
► Oil - gasoline depot/terminal explosion:
"...Explosions ripped through a major fuel
depot north of London on Sunday, injuring dozens of people, blowing doors off
nearby homes and sending fireballs and massive clouds of black smoke into the
sky....
...Noxious
fumes from the fire, which left some people coughing, also affected the large
number of police who sealed off the area and evacuated nearly 300 people to a
bowling alley being used as a temporary shelter....
...The
Environment Agency said any leaking kerosene, oil or gasoline could damage
nearby rivers or streams...."
Explosions at fuel depot
shake southeast England by Thomas Wagner,
AP, Salt Lake Tribune, December 12, 2005
(Click)
"...The network showed flames
shooting an estimated 80 to 100 meters (up to 300 feet) in the air, along with
an immense cloud of smoke blocking out the sun. Witnesses told ITN the blasts
shattered windows and caused other damage at nearby homes....
...Witness Simon Heyward described to ITN seeing "what looked like fireworks
shooting up into the sky." Police, he said, had cordoned off the area....
Crews attack UK fuel depot blaze from
CNN online contributed by the
Associated Press, December 12, 2005
(Click)
!
To read
the list of volatile and hazardous materials that would be stored at the
proposed Penn-Mar Ethanol distillery site next to Letterkenny Army Depots
critical missions. Click
!
Click
here for a group of pictures of the Port Kembla Fire. Click
on the thumbnails pictures for a larger picture.
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Click here to find link to the story below.
