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Edit: How it ended - with the fire raging, the firefighter (top of the ladder in lower right corner in above photo), pushed a hose over the edge and it was out within two minutes. People in that chat room on Fox 4 were throwing down a lot of "he's crazy!" Trust me, although not shown in the pic, those flames were the same size as those below.
Images Above From Fox 4 News (Live video as of 12:22 p.m. Ended around 12:45)
Bad photo of smoke as seen from Whataburger parking lot
The Messenger broke the news at 11:30 that there's been an explosion at some gas well near Decatur with smoke being seen "several" miles away.
Developing . . .
Edit: From the Messenger's twitter feed:
28 comments:
4 TANK BATTERIES EXPLODED UPON ARRIVAL THEY FOUND 1 FULLY INVOLVED AND ANOTHER ON ITS SIDE....2 PATIENTS SO FAR FIRST DEGREE BURNS
the tank battery has 5 or 6 big storage tanks with at least 1 tank fully engulfed in flames and the others will probably explode before boots and coots can get here to put out this big gas fire..
I will bet that some one walked uo with a lit cig. that caused this, there are 2 people with bad burns to their face and upper torso.
BURN, WISE COUNTY! BURRRRRRN!
This just made fox news
The Wise County tank battery fire made Fox News Channel.
Live Video via FoxDFW of tank battery fire.
Seems to be another A & M event gone wrong...
The fire is out and the FoxDFW chopper is leaving the scene so the live video of the tank battery has ended.
Incidentally, Devon owns and operates the tank battery.
I hope John Lanier is OK.
11:43 are ypou kidding? It was started by a welder. Sorry can't blame the evil smokers for this one.
was hiding behind a tank tokin on a fatty
yall need to have a little more respect. You wern't there and neither was I, but there are so many variables that can go wrong while doing hot work on location. Not everyone is a crack head in this county.
The welders name that got burnt is Anthony Silletti, long time WC resident.
I want to throw up now. thanks for sending me to the fox website
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/weird/031910-worlds-largest-chicken-fried-steak
mmmmmm...Whataburger
Me and Tiger are the same kind of crack heads.
Where is CLINT M. when you need him.
WCM has great close up picture of the FF on the ladder.
Thought those tanks were only full of water?!?!
Channel 4 has video of an airplane crashing into the main tower.....
I'm OK. I was in Denton and heard about it on the news. Thanks for the concern.
Hats off to the firefighters that put it out. There are A LOT of thing that can go wrong in those situations. Good job guys!
John
Thanks Anon. I went to look at that chicken fried steak and this made me throw up.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/weird/Naked-Man-on-183-Billboard
3:08 have you never smelled the fumes when you walk by one
Heard that they plan to conduct a tank memorial service on Tuesday...
4:29 I tries to keep my back to the camera.
3:08...condensate and gas vapors are just a by product of dumping water into the tanks. The gas is used to push the water from the separator into the tanks so that the gas can carry on down the sales line...therefore the gas has a direct line to the tank...condensate on the other hand is as flamable (or more) than gasoline. I was told he was working on a line that the crew was working on finishing up the final welds on wells that had just recently been drilled...and the line was loaded. Proper precautions were not taken..natural gas(if not shown its proper respect)can injure or kill. Devon has outstanding safety regulations and policies..so the procedures had to be overlooked by the crew in order for something like this to happen. Thats your natural gas lesson for the day.
Devon Employee
note to DFD.......you all need someone other than Caster to REPRESENT us on the news.....just sayin
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