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Crosby Residents EXTREME ALERT - Arkema Chemical Plant
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Originally posted by txpitdog View PostNo power to run the refrigeration units. I believe anhydrous ammonia may be present. If the system is designed for cooled liquid and the refrigerators are out of service the ammonia will vaporize and build pressure until the equipment fails. Massive vapor cloud explosion followed by a deadly ammonia cloud.
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Originally posted by 35remington View PostThis may be semantics, but the story I read repeatedly says there was no explosion. The containers popped and caught fire. They'll burn out. This isn't West, Texas.
Ad of 0600 we weren't allowed to visit
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Originally posted by Quackerbox View PostEither way 10 deputies went to the hospital and some that went to visit also got sick.
The sheriff's department says that 15 of its deputies went to the hospital after getting close to the Arkema plant, and that all of them have since been released. The agency has said the deputies inhaled a "non-toxic irritant." Gonzalez compared the fumes his deputies encountered to "standing over a barbecue pit or something like that."
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Originally posted by 35remington View Post"'It wasn't an explosion. I want to be very clear. It was not an explosion," Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said of the incident, which he said was a result of containers "basically popping.'
The sheriff's department says that 15 of its deputies went to the hospital after getting close to the Arkema plant, and that all of them have since been released. The agency has said the deputies inhaled a "non-toxic irritant." Gonzalez compared the fumes his deputies encountered to "standing over a barbecue pit or something like that."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...n-crosby-texasOriginally posted by GarGuy View PostBonjour
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Originally posted by 35remington View Post"'It wasn't an explosion. I want to be very clear. It was not an explosion," Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said of the incident, which he said was a result of containers "basically popping.'
The sheriff's department says that 15 of its deputies went to the hospital after getting close to the Arkema plant, and that all of them have since been released. The agency has said the deputies inhaled a "non-toxic irritant." Gonzalez compared the fumes his deputies encountered to "standing over a barbecue pit or something like that."
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...n-crosby-texas
They could have at least given him a quick run down to make it appear he knew what he was talking about. "Basically popping". There is no "basically popping". Most likely a pressure relief device on the containers they're stored in that popped.
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