Major Emergency In My Town...
The day a big story breaks and the BBC has a 48 hour journalists strike so many of the news programmes normally available on radio, television on the BBC Website are severely curtailed or stopped altogether.
Though locally, they did manage to put some information out locally where a number of stations were sharing the same output.
It really came down to watching and listening to commercial TV and Radio.
I cannot place the building concerned. The town's Industrial Estate is not an area I have had need to visit very often.
Over the years the housing area and industrial are has kind of merged or become very close to each other as land is at a premium.
We have some very large chemical factories literally across the road from houses.
Which from a safety point of view and even aesthetically seems a strange thing to do.
Luckily, I'm tempted to say the largest such factory was not involved today though it was bad enough. You could still see smoke(more like steam) at Midnight, I assume that was the result of firefighters called from across most of the North East directing water onto the fire and cooling down all contents and building scorched by fire and heat all day trying to avoid it spreading to surrounding units.
I had happened to look out of the landing window at 1pm and saw what looked like dark clouds coming over and mentioned to Mum it looked like we were going to get another wet afternoon.
Later on, Mum was looking out the same window and she said "Look at all this smoke!" And then we realised it was something different and we could hear what sounded like thunder(that would be all the little explosions going off inside the warehouse)
Where we are we could not see the factory nor any flames that only became apparent after seeing local tv news, reading reports on the local newspapers website and what was described on the radio.
We knew it was bad though and it looked much worse than these images suggest.
The only good thing is that few if any of those working there have been hurt but at this difficult time economically there will quite a few people worried about how they are going to pay the bills and looking for work as of next week.
You Tube Video
The Northern Echo
Northern Echo Article Two
Northern Echo Article Three
Though locally, they did manage to put some information out locally where a number of stations were sharing the same output.
It really came down to watching and listening to commercial TV and Radio.
I cannot place the building concerned. The town's Industrial Estate is not an area I have had need to visit very often.
Over the years the housing area and industrial are has kind of merged or become very close to each other as land is at a premium.
We have some very large chemical factories literally across the road from houses.
Which from a safety point of view and even aesthetically seems a strange thing to do.
Luckily, I'm tempted to say the largest such factory was not involved today though it was bad enough. You could still see smoke(more like steam) at Midnight, I assume that was the result of firefighters called from across most of the North East directing water onto the fire and cooling down all contents and building scorched by fire and heat all day trying to avoid it spreading to surrounding units.
I had happened to look out of the landing window at 1pm and saw what looked like dark clouds coming over and mentioned to Mum it looked like we were going to get another wet afternoon.
Later on, Mum was looking out the same window and she said "Look at all this smoke!" And then we realised it was something different and we could hear what sounded like thunder(that would be all the little explosions going off inside the warehouse)
Where we are we could not see the factory nor any flames that only became apparent after seeing local tv news, reading reports on the local newspapers website and what was described on the radio.
We knew it was bad though and it looked much worse than these images suggest.
The only good thing is that few if any of those working there have been hurt but at this difficult time economically there will quite a few people worried about how they are going to pay the bills and looking for work as of next week.
You Tube Video
The Northern Echo
Northern Echo Article Two
Northern Echo Article Three
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 3:36 pm
3 Comments:
Just as well they were'nt on strike (I know that was mainly in London, and wa scalled off)!
Good photos, I'm not a pyromaniac or an arsonist but I do like fire and smoke.
For that smoke to reach my area you can imagine that it was bad...and it did look worse than the pictures suggest.
I honestly thought it was the really big chemicals factory that had gone up, I had no idea(but should've guessed other companies on an Ind. Est. would be a danger)
If the big one goes up we really do have problems.
There hasn't been much about this twelve days on...but the foam that went into the local river networks did manage to kill some fish as to what caused the explosion/fire still no news.
The fireworks display has been postponed until next year. I assume some kind of insurance policy has been called in to cover the cancellation and in reality the Town Council are probably happy at this austere time for any excuse to save some money.
Such events have always been free(though we probably pay through our taxes)but I can see a time perhaps where they charge an admission fee or no longer run such events and leave it to private companies to run.
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