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2018-05-25 Science & Technology

Michigan magnesium plant explosion due to water-based fire suppression

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Oy vey. Who was the schlimazel?

Posted by JohnQC 2018-05-25 09:28|| 2018-05-25 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 It's Flint water. It'll extinguish anything...

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-05-25 10:23|| 2018-05-25 10:23|| Front Page Top

#3 "we saw a white glow in the tunnel. We exited the plant at that time" at a rapid pace.

Saw the aftermath of a mag fire, not much else to do.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-05-25 11:00|| 2018-05-25 11:00|| Front Page Top

#4 A water-based fire suppression system in a magnesium plant. Brilliant. Simply brilliant...

Posted by Dave D. 2018-05-25 11:05|| 2018-05-25 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 One interesting thing about the aftermath. Ford moved 84,000 lb of its machinery from this plant to somewhere in the UK over a 30 hour period to recover their ability to continue producing their best selling line, pickups. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-05-25 13:04|| 2018-05-25 13:04|| Front Page Top

#6 A water-based fire suppression system in a magnesium plant. Brilliant. Simply brilliant...

Yeah. This is basic high school chemistry and the facts of life for anyone who puts out fires for a living. It's hard to imagine the multiple levels of fuckupery required for this to happen.

Posted by SteveS 2018-05-25 13:15|| 2018-05-25 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Suit up the board of directors, give'em a 2" line, and kick their asses towards the fire.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-05-25 14:10|| 2018-05-25 14:10|| Front Page Top

#8 This is as bad and stupid as that explosion in Tianjin a couple years back... you know, the one with the carbide?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2018-05-25 14:41|| 2018-05-25 14:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Electrical fire, fuse room with *live* power, and (idiot) supervisor was stopped pulling a 1" water hose at the door... Probably would have shut down the whole production floor for a week and *zapped* him into Intensive Care (if he was lucky).

Posted by magpie 2018-05-25 15:35|| 2018-05-25 15:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Expect to see much more of this as high schools and colleges are converted into socialist, communist knuckle dragging indoctrination camps.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-05-25 19:59|| 2018-05-25 19:59|| Front Page Top

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