Huge Gas Fire
<div class="IPBDescription">In Downtown Saint Louis</div> I don’t know if many have heard about this, it was on some national news stations. There was a massive gas fire in downtown Saint Louis on Friday in which a gas company named Praxair's building was completely destroyed. The building contained thousands of liters of gasses, including propane, oxygen, hydrogen, and chlorine.
Videos of the event and the full story can be seen here
<a href='http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=81101' target='_blank'>http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=81101</a>
The explosions were amazing and I could see them from outside my lab on the Saint Louis University campus. There were continuous explosions and loud thudding noises for around an hour after the fire began. Large canisters of gas would be propelled into the air and the resulting pillars of fire could be seen from extremely far away, and actually endangered one of the new helicopters covering the event.
The article claims that the facility stored "78 thousand cubic feet of propane" and that the flames reached hundreds of feet in the air.
It was an amazing sight to behold, and thankfully no one died as a result of the fire
Videos of the event and the full story can be seen here
<a href='http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=81101' target='_blank'>http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=81101</a>
The explosions were amazing and I could see them from outside my lab on the Saint Louis University campus. There were continuous explosions and loud thudding noises for around an hour after the fire began. Large canisters of gas would be propelled into the air and the resulting pillars of fire could be seen from extremely far away, and actually endangered one of the new helicopters covering the event.
The article claims that the facility stored "78 thousand cubic feet of propane" and that the flames reached hundreds of feet in the air.
It was an amazing sight to behold, and thankfully no one died as a result of the fire
Comments
Whoa.
Big explosions. And fire :o
O_O
Good thing no-one was there... they wouldn't have existed much longer if they were o.o;