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UPDATE: 4 dead, 3 hurt in blast, fire at Wash. refinery
Google/AP ^ | April 2, 2010 | George Tibbits

Posted on 04/02/2010 11:34:48 AM PDT by luckymom

ANACORTES, Wash. — An explosion and fire at a Washington state oil refinery shook homes and shot flames into the night sky early Friday, killing four people and critically injuring three others. The fire struck the Tesoro Corp. refinery in Anacortes, about 70 miles north of Seattle on Puget Sound, at about 12:30 a.m., the company said. The blaze occurred while maintenance work was being performed and was extinguished in about 90 minutes. Three employees are hospitalized with major burns over the majority of their bodies. Susan Gregg-Hanson, a spokeswoman for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, said they are one women, 36, and two men 34 and 41. A 29-year-old woman died of her burns at the hospital....

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: anacortes; explosion; tesoro; washington
Another person has died from injuries sustained in an explosion last night at the Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, WA. Please pray for the remaining blast vicitms, and the families of those lost and injured.
1 posted on 04/02/2010 11:34:48 AM PDT by luckymom
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To: luckymom

Ghastly way to die... Sounds to me like they may have been doing maintenance on an improperly ventilated tank.


2 posted on 04/02/2010 11:37:08 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: luckymom

Earlier thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2485368/posts


3 posted on 04/02/2010 11:38:35 AM PDT by CedarDave (Obamacare, cap/trade, etc. - all have the same goal: Government control and power over individuals)
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To: luckymom

The company’s stock is up 3.5% right now.


4 posted on 04/02/2010 11:45:08 AM PDT by library user
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To: library user

“The company’s stock is up 3.5% right now.”

That’s yesterday’s closing quote. Stk mkt is closed today.


5 posted on 04/02/2010 12:02:34 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Voters who thought their ship came in with 0bama are on their own Titanic.)
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To: luckymom

Oh man. I just had a dream two nights ago about a gasline leak and evacuation in our neighborhood. The two large pipelines that comes from those plants near Anacortes passes 200’ east of the house! (It even prompted me to write a note to look up the blast radius if one of them went).

Prayers for these guy’s families and the injured.


6 posted on 04/02/2010 12:09:44 PM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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7 posted on 04/02/2010 2:56:48 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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My good friend’s husband used to work there, and was in the hiring “class” with a couple of the deceased. Prayers for the family members and survivors.


8 posted on 04/02/2010 10:46:15 PM PDT by conservative cat
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