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Propane and propane accessories make one large boom!

 
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:45 am    Post subject: Propane and propane accessories make one large boom! Reply with quote

Well about 4am I got woken up to several large booms... thinking it was thunder (it's been raining here a lot), I looked outside and saw few clouds and no lightning, but did see a large orange glow to the north.

Tired, I thought nothing of it and went back to bed. Turns out it wasn't nothing - a propane facility in the burbs blew up, leading to evacuations of several thousand people, closing of expressways and a subway line, and creating a no fly zone.

So far, no fatalities, but it's still burning.

Some wicked video on YouTube though (I didn't think propane would have enough force to make a mushroom cloud!) -

Explosion 1

Explosion 2

The actual news article can be found here

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sweet, those are some awesome explosions. Sucks though to hear that people had to be evacuated.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

CJ_Krythos wrote:
sweet, those are some awesome explosions. Sucks though to hear that people had to be evacuated.


Aye.... I'm wondering what brainiac allowed homes to be built across the street from the propane depot though .. or vice versa.

Take a look at it's location on Google Maps

Apparently one firefighter was fatally wounded, and a depot employee is unaccounted for - sad, but considering how close it was to many homes, could have been much worse

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's no difference from the idiots that build homes right next to oil refineries
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, according to the article, the company moved into the area long after it had been urbanized. This really is the case of someone planting a hazardous operation in the middle of a residential area.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Propane and propane accessories make one large boom! Reply with quote

Arctic_Mutt wrote:
(I didn't think propane would have enough force to make a mushroom cloud!)


Propane can make a very big explosion. Big enough to send entire an entire railcar several thousand feet through the air when the tank splits in a fire.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

what? And Midi has commented yet? Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good to see that this didn't turn out as bad as it could have. I hope this will prompt Canadian lawmakers into revamping zoning codes so as to not put the public in such danger again.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CJ_Krythos wrote:
sweet, those are some awesome explosions.
Thank you! I think I did a pretty good job seeing as there were no fatalities!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hikaru wrote:
Actually, according to the article, the company moved into the area long after it had been urbanized. This really is the case of someone planting a hazardous operation in the middle of a residential area.


Yes, the housing in that area is quite old (1950s I believe)... it's former military housing as that area used to be Downsview Air Force Base (that's the runway you can see in the satellite photos directly to the north), which, when built was well beyond the edge of the city. Since then, Toronto has surrounded the area.

I think the housing was sold off cheap to the public in the early 90s when the base was closed.

Now of course, our bozo Mayor has ordered a review of city zoning permits and trying to see how that facility was allowed to be built right beside an existing neighbourhood... better late than never Rolling Eyes


Katra wrote:

Propane can make a very big explosion. Big enough to send entire an entire railcar several thousand feet through the air when the tank splits in a fire.


Indeed - apparently a bus stop several kilometres away had a propane cylinder smashed right through it...

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This video of the propane explosion was just released... and its waaay cooler and closer (Warning - mature language) - large shockwave visible
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