The mayor said this was also a grain storage facility and he thinks the grain may have exploded, too. Rice and soybean and wheat dust is very combustible.
The mayor said this was also a grain storage facility and he thinks the grain may have exploded, too. Rice and soybean and wheat dust is very combustible.
Why not? What’s a few more combustibles on sight with tons of fertilizer when you allowed a nursing home, apartment building, and school to be placed within the minimum safe distance for a truck full of fertilizer on fire? Got to have that tax money!
This is a multifaceted failure, but most incredible to me was the failure of proper urban zoning based on standard risk assessments. I am horrified that a nursing home was approximately 500 feet away from such a facility. It really makes you mad when you look at it in terms of risk mitigation/assessment.