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To: Steve Van Doorn

FOXNews Fox & Friends just announced (with a still photograph) that there was a fire inside one of the nuclear missle silos within The United States a few months age. The government is just letting us know about it right now at 6:17 a.m. on a Saturday, months after the event...WTF?

BTW no one monitoring the interior of the missile silo noticed the fire when it happened!

No one was hurt.

It makes you wonder if someone was testing how long it would take our government to find out about the fire.


37 posted on 10/31/2008 3:25:01 AM PDT by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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To: BIOCHEMKY
Those are solid rocket fuels. Meaning if a large enough fire gets under it the rocket could ignite.

Accidents happen fires do start, I would assume there would be a very good fire extinguishing system to kill the fire. The problem the best ones that also do not destroy the electrons such as Halon would be very dangerous for those down there.

I didn't see Fox News at LAT building when i was there.

39 posted on 10/31/2008 3:33:10 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: BIOCHEMKY
I was stationed at Malmstrom, AFB in Great Falls, Montana from 1977 - 1979. The state had 200 ICBM’s there. We use to get a safety day off if there were no accidents during a month. You would be amazed at how many times and accident happened at day 29, 30 or 31 or the month. An example of one accident that ONLY cost us a safety day was a truck transporting one of the missiles overturned out on one of the highways.

I heard many "silo" stories too. Sometimes rattlesnakes like to make their way inside. Then there were the cold winter stories where someone made dumb descisions ala the movie "A Christmas Story" - think the flagpole. Very cold weather and metal don't mix with your flesh.

80 posted on 10/31/2008 1:10:06 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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