Sorry, couldn’t resist the teaser tag but here’s a video of a massive propane plant explosion on the weekend in Toronto. When one of the big tanks bleves you can see the shockwave from the explosion.

Fortunately there were no deaths as a result but over 12,000 people were evacuated and Canada’s busiest 16-lane highway was shut down for 14 hours until firefighters got it all under control.

oldwilli (with apologies to our TC sweetheart Bleve)

Yeah…see….that’s why you don’t piss me off. Muahahaha. JK. 

wow, that was huge

gee wizz. they’l need a fair few watering cans for that.

Water doesn’t put those out. The chemicals are too poignant.

who said anything about water?

shh_hector - 11 August 2008 05:21 PM

who said anything about water?

Ok so whats in the cans genius ? Curiosity is killing me now.  That and boredom. 

A fire retardant foam, what firefighters actually use to put out chemical fires

R-Boris - 11 August 2008 05:33 PM

A fire retardant foam, what firefighters actually use to put out chemical fires

Damn. I thought you had something special up your sleeve. 

Crikey..

Health and Safety wont be happy with that.

bleve - 11 August 2008 06:21 PM

R-Boris - 11 August 2008 05:33 PM

A fire retardant foam, what firefighters actually use to put out chemical fires

Damn. I thought you had something special up your sleeve. 

Nah, I like to tell it straight