[Armedanddangerous]

what exactly do they make there folks?

[Raycpa]

I live on the top/5th floor of my apartment building here in Meriden... the concussion rocked the building about 12-18 inches and then it fell back, .... felt like it came off the foundation!
Thoughts are with those who are there now....

TAK-27 (02/07/2010, 12:59 PM )

(Meriden is about a 20 minute drive)

[Man50D]

I can’t help but wonder if there were any injuries or damage beyond the plant.

[TSgt]

Homes in the area sustained damage from the explosion. Possible 3rd fatality.

[TSgt]

Windows blown out of homes.

[tcrlaf]

Comment from the Middletown Paper @12.59PM:

” Calling 20 ambulances from Hartford. Scaling down on triage though. “

http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/02/07/news/doc4b6ef2d228983062585943.txt

[TSgt]

2 confirmed dead, 200 injured, 80 critical, NY, NJ, MA emergency being called in...

[KosmicKitty]

Heard it at my house in North Haven, almost 25 miles from Middletown

Actually thought it might be an earthquake

[Man50D]

Report on scanner is that people are coming through the woods to view the damage.

[tcrlaf]

WFSB-TV Hartford:

Middletown, Conn. — Police in Middletown said there was an explosion with mass casualties just before 11:30 a.m. at the Kleen Energy plant on River Road.

Sources said at least 250 people were injured with at least two people confirmed dead.

St. Francis and Yale-New Haven Hospitals were on disaster standby to take in injured people from the scene.

Fire departments from around the area are responding.

WFSB has received calls from people from as far as Higganum, Meriden, Prospect and Naugatuck who said that their homes shook from the force of the explosion.

E-mails and calls from viewers also reported shelves and pictures falling from walls inside homes from the force of the explosion.

http://www.wfsb.com/news/22491279/detail.html#

[Man50D]

I wouldn’t be surprised if I-91 was shutdown or still is shutdown.

[tiredoflaundry]

Prayers for all involved.

[Zeppo]

If you can believe some of the comments on the channel 8 WTNH website, the explosion was heard or felt at incredible distances (I am 30 miles from there and did not hear it, but people at even greater distances have reported heariong the blast). You can't place too much faith in anonymously-sourced unconfirmed comments on the Internet, but some are claiming fatality figures that are extremely shocking...

[Grut]

I don’t trust those casualty figures: 2 dead, 300 wounded is ‘way off the usual ratio. Either there are a lot more dead, or a lot fewer wounded, or it was a very unusual situation.

[Doogle]

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ard=1&q1=middletown+ct&fr2=sc-sb&fr=yfp-t-701#mvt=s&lat=41.55566&lon=-72.58096&zoom=17&q1=middletown%20ct

ZOOM IN ON POWER PLANT

[John-Irish]

Prayers for all involved. I hope it’s a ‘’man-caused disaster’’ in the mechanical sense of the term and not something more sinister.

[Churchillspirit]

What the heck are folks posting that the mods. are having to remove so many??

[CalvaryJohn]

I live in Ledyard,(SE CT) and I felt it here. It was just a distant boom; didn’t think anything of it at the time. Damn.

[Raycpa]

Betsy Hard, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, told The Associated Press that multiple people died but she did not know how many.

Fifty construction workers were in the section of the power plant where the explosion happened at 11:17 a.m., said Al Santostefano, the deputy fire marshal in Middletown. He said he did not know what caused the explosion.

Hospitals that were treating the 14 wounded said late Sunday afternoon that they weren’t expecting more patients.

Dogs were searching for victims in the rubble, but there were no signs of life Sunday afternoon, he said.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/02/07/gas_explosion_fire_at_power_plant_in_conn/

[metmom]

Prayers for the injured and families of the dead.

First thought that comes to mind is terrorism. What a perfect target to do it with and be able to disguise it as an *accident*.