Look What Happened Near Me Yesterday

[Steve GT]

they say the smoke could be seen 30 plus miles away

couple of my mates work there so was a panic evacuation and its still going now.reckon its going to stay burning for up to 3 days

[Dan_SV]

saw that on the news last night, looks pretty bad.

gives me an idea of what it would be like if my workplace went up!

[Steve GT]

yes mate not good

specially to say the next door unit was full of gas cannisters

you could hear them going off all night

if the wind changed direction they would to have evacuated the whole village behind it cause the smoke was that bad and thick. plus it was burning plastic and gas which are both very harmful

scary stuff

[Jason_T]

we had a fire like that in the place i work, might have seen it on the news, it was names as abbey produce in whittlesey

[LukeSR]

Imagine breathing that in

[Steve GT]

i was stood only a hundred or so yards away watching lol but yeh its still going now n alll

fire crews have been there all night

[Idrees]

Shit that is bad. I hope they had insurance!

[Steve GT]

thing is its an industrial estate so spread right along all the factorys so theres going to be millions of pounds of damage lol

[Curtis]

fook living near plastic and gas burning, that sort of stuff can fuck you up if you inhale that

[Steve GT]

yep thats why if the wind changed and blew it near the village they would have had to evacuate fukin hundreds of poeple

honestly hey shut the whole area off like a mile radius around the area

there was fleets of coppers and fire crews from gainsborough scunny and lincoln it was mad as fuck

quite scary hearing all them gas tanks exploding though theres some serious environmental damage too by the looks of it

[BAZ2CRAZY]

fuck! i hope the company can recover

Mitch

[Steve GT]

looks doubtful. the whole place went up in seconds apparently there probably wont be a building left when they put it out lol

its a shame as well cause the place is an ex RAF base as well so theres sentimentallaty there to loads of people as well

[Blitz]

yes people burning plastic produces bromine gas and more betterly known chlorine gas both increadably toxic and harmful not good for you! you would of thought they would have had defenses in place to stop the fire getting that badly outta control though....

[Steve GT]

yeh true but you know what fires can be like once they start they can spread in seconds lol

and yeh cant burning plastic make you infertile if inhaled as well? just wondered haha

[Blitz]

yer i no but like fire breaks and stuff.

umm not sure about infertaile haha more to worry about the respertary side because chlorine can react with water in the lungs to form hydrochloric acid, an irritant which can be lethal. and the bromine gas has similar effects reacting with water and causeing irritation... probs sound like a right geek but chemistry amazes me like the reason onions sting your eyes when you cut them is cause they emit a vapour which goes to your eyes (wettest part of your body) and creates a weak form of sulphuric acid, thats why if you stick your tongue out when you cut them it ll stop your eyes stinging

[Steve GT]

haha thats mad as fook i never knew tht lol

where you learn all this from dude?

[Blitz]

haha well i was told it in chemestry which like i said used to amaze me, books and stoof and a quick read up on wikipeidia lol just to make sure i wasnt teling you wrong stuff

[Jade_Star]

Oh God! Was anyone hurt?

[Steve GT]

nah everyone run like fuck straight away

theyve finially put it out now

they were trying to stop the gas cannisors exploding not realising 2 units down there were two huge massive gas tanks sat in another part. so apparently instead of putting the fire out they were just focusing on keeping these tanks cool. they said of these tanks exploded it would have totally destroyed the whole place lol scary stuff for the fireman im guessing

[Sparky]

That must of stunk!!

Hate the smell of burning plastic!