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Propane Plant Explosion... Resident's Fault?!

Mon Aug 11, 2008, 6:52 AM
Last Saturday night, into early Sunday morning, a massive explosion rocked the city of Toronto, Canada. Didn't hear about it in the news? I was surprised too. I saw a "Breakings News" blurp on the CNN website and didn't see anything after that. So, I did my own digging and followed news websites out of Canada as well as YouTube videos posted by scared residents soon after the blast.

I won't post any videos. Just search "Toronto Explosion." They're easy to find. [link]

The initial explosion occured at 3:40am northwest of town at a propane storage facility. Many residents were violently awakened by the blast. At least one resident escaped with his life as his house collapsed. His house and many others, right near the facility, caught fire. Windows were shattered of many homes by the shockwave of the explosion and a few others following. At least one video shows an explosion, with a shockwave, sending the cameraman and his family members ducking for cover back inside their house. In some of the video, you can see burning propane tanks launch like rockets into the air, landing hundreds of feet away from the blast site, landing in the surrounding homes. Energency officials evacuated every home within a 2 mile radius of the blast. That was later expanded the following afternoon.

Today is day two and I logged on to find an update. Here's what I find... [link]

Anyone live in Toronto? I know Holly and Kanis are okay.

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dang that must be scary o,o
well i hope that they can recover after that
I heard about this on a forum, I hope everyone is ok and I am glad you are ok.

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Same here...

One report said that someone said there were propane tanks falling from the sky. Probibly what Lance said was the cause (explosions rocketing the propane tanks and launching them away). Freaky :o
What an idiot built propane station over there?

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Well, you gotta build them somewhere. I think the station was already there but people decided to build homes right next to it afterwords :P
Woah, that's even worse than the bombing in Vancouver AND the underground fire combined.

Did you hear about those?
Well, they gotta go someplace. and they gotta go someplace near their customers, cause that truck has gotta go back to refill a couple times a day to justify it's cost. ANd when they go, they really go bigtime. This is actually not the worst case sceneario. the worst case is a big tank breaking open in the middle of the night, big cloud of propane spreading out and then finding it's ignition source aftyer it has spread out a bit. Boom! Everyone within a quarter mile of the gas cloud dead from the blast wave.
wow.
Toronto explodes on Saturday, and Montréal is razed down by a rioting street gang.

What a fiery week-end!
One in need of money, one suspects.

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