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Texas explosion was a Bomb - fire dispatch recording
Live leak.com ^ | 4-17-2013 | Live leak

Posted on 04/18/2013 12:48:21 AM PDT by Species8472

A recording of the radio traffic between fire dispatch and responders reveal that West fire units report that a bomb went off in the building.


TOPICS: US: Texas
KEYWORDS: explosion; fire; texas
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To: deport

deport, the cars in the second picture look to be from the Fifties. Someone must have misidentified the picture as being from the 1947 explosion.


81 posted on 04/18/2013 5:52:11 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: seeker41

Which is, of course, not true - he had said 5 block area last night, and likely misspoke today.

But gosh, the precise wording of anyone not in the media needs to be blindly believed.


82 posted on 04/18/2013 5:57:50 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: donna

There you go with common sense again.

You know that’s not allowed.

Now run around in circles and PANIC! PANIC! PANIC!


83 posted on 04/18/2013 7:25:56 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: cardinal4
You don't work at Praxair do you? - (small fire there today from lightening strike)
84 posted on 04/18/2013 7:31:55 AM PDT by stlnative
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To: stlnative

No, at the Phillips 66 facility across the river in Wood River..
I remember when Praxair blew up the first time..


85 posted on 04/18/2013 8:09:16 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Constitution? What Constitution?)
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To: justa-hairyape

Maybe so...but I tend to think it was a gut reaction....time will tell.


86 posted on 04/18/2013 8:24:38 AM PDT by caww
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To: EBH

I agree. While anything’s possible, it seemed like a fairly general comment on the 911 call. Seems like the fire just ignited the plant, but we’ll see. Way too early at this point to conclude anything.


87 posted on 04/18/2013 9:43:36 AM PDT by mykroar (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.-Thomas Paine)
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To: stlnative

Yes and it was the same video posted earlier. I did review both.


88 posted on 04/18/2013 9:55:19 AM PDT by reaganaut (Kyrie eleison...Christe eleison...Kyrie eleison)
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Cause of Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed up to 15 suspicious
89 posted on 04/18/2013 10:04:26 AM PDT by Species8472 (Stupid is supposed to hurt)
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To: mykroar
Seems like the fire just ignited the plant, but we’ll see. Way too early at this point to conclude anything.

The key is what caused the fire. Did the report of a bomb occur when the fire first broke out ?

90 posted on 04/18/2013 1:46:39 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: AnAmericanAbroad
I’m sure the responder might have thought it was a bomb, but it doesn’t mean that it was.

True. That one ship of AN threw a 2-ton anchor more that 1.5 miles in Texas City. People in Galveston County thought they had been nuked.

91 posted on 04/18/2013 3:13:34 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: houeto

Perry is BEGGING for money from the federal tit. No surprise. Perry wants Texas to be on it’s own but obviously the state is not able to be. Wanting and making it happen are too different things. Perry keep begging for the welfare. Texas will get it right one day....maybe.


92 posted on 04/19/2013 11:48:09 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: EBH
At this point I would NOT conclude a bomb. There was one hell of an explosion though during a fire at a fertilizer plant.

I tend to agree with you, but one youtube video that I saw shows a bright light flash to the left of the main fire just before the HUGE explosion. Someone else posted a video comparing the sound of a JDAM prior to explosion and hinted that there was the same sound prior to the main explosion at the fertilizer plant.
93 posted on 04/22/2013 7:12:03 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: Eagle of Liberty
That flash you see/saw...I noted it in another post as a volatile vapor flash. That's the ignition source, not a bomb. Something flashed over. I compare it to gasoline vapors flashing over to a gas can.

Under the right circumstances AA does explode. If a tank is leaking and the AA mixes with water...hydrogen peroxide forms...add heat from a fire you may attain a volatile vapor flash. I am not saying that is what happened as the plant had other chemicals onsight as well. But you have to consider what would cause two AA tanks to explode...which under normal circumstances pose no real hazard?

94 posted on 04/22/2013 7:54:42 AM PDT by EBH (Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
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To: EBH
That flash you see/saw...I noted it in another post as a volatile vapor flash. That's the ignition source, not a bomb. Something flashed over. I compare it to gasoline vapors flashing over to a gas can.

Makes sense. kinda like how you can put out a candle, light a match above the candle smoke, and the candle will re-light.

If it was the AA that exploded, that sure was a BIG BOOM!
95 posted on 04/22/2013 8:15:26 AM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Be the Enemy Within the Enemy Within...)
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To: Eagle of Liberty

They had 2 12,000 gallon tanks on site.

Here...this might help explain a bit further if you care to read it through.

http://my.firefighternation.com/forum/topics/889755:Topic:2841048


96 posted on 04/22/2013 11:15:45 AM PDT by EBH (Warning this person is a Catholic, Tea Party Patriot, and owns a copy of Atlas Shurgged)
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