I figured it would have been a lab experiment gone wrong....
Posted on 01/17/2019 6:49:16 AM PST by BenLurkin
Workmen carrying out roof repairs at the LyonTech-la Doua campus, where 22,000 mainly science students are based, are thought to have accidentally started the blaze.
‘The explosions happened inside the Science Library shortly after 9am,’ said a spokesman for the local prefecture.
‘Sealing work was in progress on the roof the building, and this is how the fire started. An evacuation is underway.’
Speaking just after 10am local time, the spokesman added: ‘At the moment we are only aware of one person who is slightly injured.’
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France used to be THE science center.
Why couldn’t this have happened at the politics and bureaucracy library?
I’m no expert, but I think it’s hard to have a massive fireball. Fire and explosion, sure. But a big fireball? Special effects guys in Hollywood have to actually work to make those happen.
Looks like a solvent or gasoline vapor explosion.
The tar pot is likely propane fired and they had a leak.
I figured it would have been a lab experiment gone wrong....
France seems to be having a lot of random explosions these days as Macaroni seeks to hold on to power.
If it had, the question would be "What did Trump tweet?"
That makes sense, then the propane tank popped.
Oopsie!
(says someone who once accidentally filled the high school chem lab with smoke. no earth shattering kaboom or anything exciting, just yucky smoke)
Patching and sealing an old roof with hot tar causes a lot of fires. Here in Milwaukee, WI we had a beautiful, historic church that burned down last year due to roof “fixing.”
Didn’t that happen a couple years ago in Wisconsin and they tried to blame it on the science department when it was really terrorism?
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