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WAGON, TOWER, AND CHIEF RUN EXPLOSION AT CITY POWER
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October
03, 2007
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At 1650
hours this afternoon, units from the 81st Battalion were
alerted to a building fire at 8885 Church Street, one of
the City's Generation Plants. The Wagon, Tower and Chief
were quickly on the street with ten men. The companies
arrived to find smoke showing from the door to the
building and an exhaust stack on
the roof of the generation plant. Once inside it was
apparent that an explosion had occurred. Though the fire
was out, the massive exhaust stacks that vent through
the roof structure were glowing red hot. The Tower's
crew opened up the roof and exhaust fan housing to check
for extension. Meanwhile, the Wagon's crew went to work
containing a large antifreeze leak that occurred when
the explosion ruptured a large cooling radiator on the
back side of the building. The explosion was caused by a
failure of a turbo unit on one of the massive diesel
engines, igniting a flash fire. |
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