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Breaking:Firefighters are battling a 'major emergency fire' in South L.A.
ABC News ^
| June 11th, 2010
Posted on 06/11/2010 12:08:24 PM PDT by TaraP
Massive titanium fire explodes in South L.A.
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Firefighters are battling a large titanium fire in South Los Angeles that began with an explosion on Friday morning.
Authorities responded to the "major emergency fire" at a recycling plant at Slauson and Central avenues at about 11 a.m. There was originally a report of a firefighter missing, but authorities have confirmed that the firefighter is OK.
There's been a report of one civilian injury, but no further information is available on the victim's condition.
Firefighters are asking the Department of Water and Power to de-energize the high voltage lines above the firefighters battling the blaze.
LAUSD schools in the area are being told to keep shelter until further notice from the fire department.
The Coast Guard was notified about runoff possibly getting into the flood control channel.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fire; kickass; lakers; losangeles
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:08:24 PM PDT
by
TaraP
To: TaraP
To: All
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:09:16 PM PDT
by
TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: TaraP
What? The Lakers haven’t even won yet!
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:09:43 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: TaraP
I wonder what is used to extinguish a titanium fire? I think it’s hard to put out.
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:10:57 PM PDT
by
ZX12R
(IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
To: TaraP
A lot of people don’t realize that metal (like titanium) can burn, and when it does it can be very difficult to extinguish.
To: TaraP
Too bad AZ hasn't cut off their water.
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To: ZX12R
Not sure..It’s been going for awhile now..
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:12:04 PM PDT
by
TaraP
(He never offered our victories without fighting but he said help would always come in time)
To: ilovesarah2012
Recycling is dangerous...at a recycling plant at Slauson and Central avenues...
In some neighborhoods you recycle, and in others they recycle YOU!
I was near there once, at night. It was very scary.
To: JennysCool
Jenny that funny ROFL
Just wait for that story hit the wires ROFL
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:13:45 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
To: ZX12R
'I wonder what is used to extinguish a titanium fire? I think its hard to put out." The "dry powder" kinds of extinguishers. Class "D", I think.
When I was in college, I worked in the summer at a shop that did a lot of titanium work, with plenty of shavings. They had those Class D extinguishers everywhere.
To: ZX12R
As a powder or in the form of metal shavings, titanium metal poses a significant fire hazard and, when heated in air, an explosion hazard.[71] Water and carbon dioxide-based methods to extinguish fires are ineffective on burning titanium; Class D dry powder fire fighting agents must be used instead.[5] Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:18:08 PM PDT
by
Ditto
(Nov 2, 2010 -- Time to Clean House.)
To: OldDeckHand
That’s unpossible. Rosie has assured us that fire can’t even melt metal, let alone set it on fire.
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:18:29 PM PDT
by
Drill Thrawl
(Another day, another injury, another step closer. Are you prepared?)
To: TaraP
I think Obama Should call for a six month moratorium on Titanium recycling and manufacturing!
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:20:37 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: OldDeckHand
Those class D extinguishers probably had graphite-based powders in them.
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:21:51 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: ZX12R
“I wonder what is used to extinguish a titanium fire? I think its hard to put out.”
In the Navy we used PKP (a purple powder) for such types of fires. Airplane wheels and brakes was the most common occurrence, and you are right it was hard to fight and was so hot it melted through decks in no time.
To: NavyCanDo; OldDeckHand; Ditto
In the Navy we used PKP (a purple powder) for such types of fires. Airplane wheels and brakes was the most common occurrence, and you are right it was hard to fight and was so hot it melted through decks in no time.
Wow! Very interesting, thanks all.
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:24:15 PM PDT
by
ZX12R
(IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
To: Jim from C-Town
I think Obama Should call for a six month moratorium on Titanium recycling and manufacturing!
Only after he finds out "whose ass to kick".
To: Jack Hydrazine
"Those class D extinguishers probably had graphite-based powders in them." I don't know what was in them. But, the year before I started there, they had a shavings fire in a collection bin out back, and thankfully away from the building. Someone had idiotically dumped some pallets in the same bin, and those pallets ignited which of course ignited the metal. I guess it burned for hours out of control. The next week, they had those extinguishers everywhere.
To: ilovesarah2012
Not so Green when a blaze aye.
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posted on
06/11/2010 12:28:37 PM PDT
by
Global2010
( I can't wait untill Lent comes in 2011.)
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