|
|
#1
29-11-09, 10:28
|
||||
|
||||
Big gas Explosion in Switzerland
My former hometown where I grew up was shocked yesterday by a massive gas explosion of around 300 gas bottles. I even could hear the explosions 20 kms away!
Fortunately, nobody was hurt! Roads were closed, the nearby train track (10 m away) and highway (100 m away) too. Over 100 firemen were on duty. My father was just on the opposite side of the road at a car exhibiton, when it all begann. He stopped the traffic and then ran away like never before. Some videos in Swiss German: http://www.telem1.ch/videoplayer.php?id=8146 http://www.telem1.ch/videoplayer.php?id=8144 http://www.zofingertagblatt.ch/?srv=...23832&pg=wiggi Greetings Chris
__________________
Swiss Chris aka Christoph Zimmerli - Driving Switzerland's only Aussie F15 www.wheelsandtracks.com >> Condor A580 M+85691 (1952), Swiss Army Motorbike (unrestored) >> F15 1942 Aust (Cab 13) ::: restored by Keefy 
|
|
#2
29-11-09, 10:42
|
|||
|
|||
|
G'day Chris,
I'm glad your father was ok. I recon I would disappear pretty fast too. Just glad no one was hurt. Regards Rick (and Jill).
__________________
1916 Albion A10 1942 White Scoutcar 1940 Chev Staff Car 1940 F30S Cab11 1940 Chev WA LRDG "Te Hai" 1941 F60L Cab12 1943 Ford Lynx 1942 Bren Gun Carrier VR no.2250 Humber FV1601A Saracen Mk1(?) 25pdr. 1940 Weir No.266 25pdr. Australian Short No.185 (?) KVE Member.
|
|
#3
29-11-09, 21:29
|
|||
|
|||
|
Chris,
Scary...to say the least. I was just watching one of those disaster programs on Discovery Channel yesterday, with a similar accident in the US a few years back. Alex
__________________
Chevrolet C8 cab 11 FFW BSA Folding Bicycle
|
|
#4
30-11-09, 01:35
|
||||
|
||||
|
Glad no one was killed at that explosion. Here is the big one we had last year. It was in Toronto at a propane transfer station. It was during trasfer that a spark lit the propane on one truck. Sadly 1 firefighter was killed due to a heart attack that next day.
On a side note, the facility was in the middle of a residential area. People were complaining after wards about why such a place was allowed to exist with so many homes near it. Sadly the plant had been there for some time and it was the city that allowed all the homes to be built so close. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pan1t...eature=related
__________________
Jordan Baker RHLI Museum, Otter LRC C15A-Wire3, 1944 Willys MB, 1942 10cwt Canadian trailer
|
 |
|
|
Linear Mode
