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Posted by satchmo on Mon Dec 12th at 11:49pm 2005

No one has said anything about the oil depot fire in England yet. Are all of our British mates doing okay?


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Posted by ReNo on Tue Dec 13th at 12:30am 2005

Nowhere near me, but it sounds to have been quite some blast. I couldn't believe the scenes afterward; cars and buildings absolutely wrecked despite being hundreds of metres away, and houses nearby had windows shattered and structural damage.




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Posted by French Toast on Tue Dec 13th at 12:56am 2005

I heard it will continue burning for a few days because there's so many millions of gallons of fuel.




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Posted by Loco on Tue Dec 13th at 8:07am 2005

I'm too far away to be affected, but the cloud is enormous (I think it's something like 75 miles across). The firefighters are still trying to blanket it with foam, having put out 10 of the 20 burning silos. There's still no clues as to what caused it.


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Posted by Mephs on Tue Dec 13th at 9:07am 2005

I woke up at between 6 and 7 am and saw it just as the first news was coming in about it. Two things stand out to me about the whole (thankfully deathless) event.

1) For most of the day, the BBC was relying on people sending it photographs and video footage evidence while at the same time the emergency services were telling people to stay in their houses. While I'm all for interactive news in this way, and there probably isn't a lot the average man can do (other than get out the marshmellows on sticks) when there is an inferno of this size, it kind of scares me that seemingly the entire town just ran out to take pictures in a situation where even the media were told to keep a safe distance.

2) ITV news are sensationalist morons and they tried their best to panic the entire country by trying their best to turn it into a terrorist attack with their shock horror 'journalism'. The differences between BBC and ITV coverage was astounding.




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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Dec 13th at 6:31pm 2005

I bought my new drumkit the day it exploded, and right near the location it happened. The sky turned to night with an orange glow in the distance- seemed like I was in independance day!


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Posted by habboi on Thu Dec 15th at 10:55am 2005

Yeah I live 40 miles away from it and got woken up in the morning by the loud sound of BOOM.

For the whole day I saw black smoke covering the sky but it did not effect me much because I was at the cinema. The fire is out now I presume...





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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Dec 15th at 1:41pm 2005

Put out yesterday, and now theres all fuss about how the government doesn't fund the fire service enough and how they were unprepared for the fire due to lack of foam blanketing etc.




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