Massive Fire at Texas Chemical Plant

Source: Chicago Tribune

Nicole Cunningham
CW 33 News
11:49 a.m. CDT, October 3, 2011

A massive fire is burning at Magnablend Inc, a chemical manufacturing plant in Waxahachie. The fire broke out around 11 a.m Monday, sending huge plumes of black smoke and explosions into the air.

Magnablend is a custom blend chemical company, which stores chemicals that may be hazardous to the environment. The company has three facilities in Waxahachie. The fire is burning at the company's Central Facility, located near West 287 and I-35E.

Nearby areas have been evacuated, including the Navarro College campus in Ellis County and Wedgeworth Elementary School. Wedgeworth students are being bussed across town to Waxahachie 9th Grade Academy.

State Highway 287 has been shutdown. Ellis County Office of Emergency Management officials are also evacuating the area near the SH 287 and I-35E interchange, including residents at the Solon Place Apartments.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/kdaf-massive-fire-at-waxahachie-chemical-plant-20111003,0,6242798.story

tell Texans, SORRY, you are on your own for taking care of this problem.

Let's hear it, especially from the freak Gohmert.

p.s....Holy Crap! I just saw this on the TV machine news! WOW!

Good example of why we should be rid of the EPA, eh GOPBaggers? Opps! Not!

Working at a Texas chemical plant has got to be some kind of hell.

I hope everyone got out.

is the noise and the heat, the latter from either the summers here or whatever piece of equipment you're working around that gives off a lot of heat (like a furnace.)

http://www.cbs19.tv/story/15604907/waxahachie-chemical-warehouse">Here. I also read a report that at least one firetruck was actually engulfed by the flames and that the situation is crazy-dangerous even for a chemical fire.

PB

I watched the video where the stuff running out the warehouse door, liquid spreading and on fire, moves toward the fire engine. The firefighters seem pretty calm, walking around the truck, passing between the truck and the fire, casually lighting up a cigarette (okay, that one's made up, but it wouldn't have surprised me to see it) before the engine is totally engulfed, at which point they start doing the sane thing, running for their lives. If I had been there, it would have been useless for one of them to turn to me and say, "Let's go," because I wouldn't have been there to hear it. Zooooom!

You'll have to sit through the energy comerical, though. Don't you love the irony?

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/cvplive/cvpstream4?hpt=hp_t2

Crap! They just ended the stream! Wankers! Oh wait... now it's back. Make up your minds CNN!

Just think of all the firemen who'd be unemployed if chemical plants actually had to be safe?

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