Industrial Fire World

Ashland, KY: Fire broke out at a coke plant being demolished.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:24:00 GMT

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Pueblo, CO: A firefighter was injured battling a blaze in a closed meatpacking plant.

Anton Riecher — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:36:00 GMT

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Grand Rapids, OH: Fire swept through a factory producing crop seed.

Anton Riecher — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:32:00 GMT

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Ropar, India: Fire broke out in a storage tank of heavy fuel oil at a power plant.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:13:00 GMT

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Texas City, TX: A small fire in a refinery coker unit was extinguished within 15 minutes.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:40:00 GMT

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Wibaux County, MT: An explosion and fire involving a tanker truck destroyed a building at a slop oil reprocessing plant.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:27:00 GMT

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Spring Grove Village, OH: A worker at a waste recycling plant died when contaminated filters being shredded caught fire.

Anton Riecher — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:33:00 GMT

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Branchburg, NJ: An inadvertent mixture started a fire in a 55-gallon drum at a chemical plant.

Anton Riecher — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:13:00 GMT

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Florence, KY: A silo explosion rocked a factory making fragrance and flavor products.

Anton Riecher — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:23:00 GMT

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Hamilton, ON: Workers were using cutting tools when fire broke out at a closed paper plant.

Anton Riecher — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:19:00 GMT

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Kincardine, UK: Flames at a waste treatment facility burned 3 days.

Anton Riecher — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:16:00 GMT

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East Alton, IL: A small fire broke out in machinery at a foundry making mechanical parts.

Anton Riecher — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:06:00 GMT

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Ban Pho, Thailand: A warehouse storing engine oil at an auto plant was destroyed by fire.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:29:00 GMT

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Rayong, Myanmar: Fire destroyed a warehouse storing plastic used to make medical equipment.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:27:00 GMT

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Lake Charles, LA: Fire damaged a vinyl chloride unit at a chemical plant.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 21:01:00 GMT

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Tongon, Ivory Coast: Fire broke out at a gold mine closed for maintenance.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 20:56:00 GMT

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Montreal, QC: Flames spread across an oil reservior at a refinery.

Anton Riecher — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:42:00 GMT

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Englefeld, SK: Fire gutted a plastics manufacturing plant.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:49:00 GMT

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Jubail, Saudi Arabia: A fire at an industrial waste facility killed 6.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 21:33:00 GMT

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Spartanburg, SC: Fire gutted a packaging plant for automotive parts.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:17:00 GMT

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Thomson, SC: A smoldering sawdust fire in a timber mill warehouse took most of the day to extinguish.

Anton Riecher — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:25:00 GMT

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Atwater, CA: An explosion at a fruit packaging plant released 100 gallons of ammonia.

Anton Riecher — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:37:00 GMT

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Kampung Bersatu, Malaysia: Fire destroyed a mattress factory.

Anton Riecher — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:53:00 GMT

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Stantou, China: 14 workers died in a clothing factory fire deliberately set by a disgruntled former worker.

Anton Riecher — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:49:00 GMT

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Memphis, TN: 1 person died and 1 was injured when a production line sight glass shattered at a refinery, exposing them to hydrofluoric acid.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:02:00 GMT

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Garden City, KS: Nearly half of a plant making fiberglass tanks was destroyed by fire.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:28:00 GMT

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Waterloo, ON: 8 workers went to the hospital after formaldehyde gas leaked at an auto parts factory.

Anton Riecher — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:53:00 GMT

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Melbourne, Australia: A paper making machine caught fire at a recycling plant.

Anton Riecher — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:59:00 GMT

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St. Augustine, FL: A spill of molten aluminum ignited a fire at a manufacturing plant.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:33:00 GMT

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Terry County, TX: Multiple explosions rocked a burning chemical plant.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:41:00 GMT

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Camp Minden, LA: Nearly 6 million pounds of explosive artillery propellant incorrectly stored was ordered moved by state police.

Anton Riecher — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:10:00 GMT

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