fire in Hemel Hempsted

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:41 am

anyone near this incident?? can anyone see it or did anyone feel the vibration of the blast??

Randall · Post by **Randall** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:11 am

Well i got in from town about 2 this morning but woke up to hear my bro and rentz talking about a large bang this morning - im over at aylesbury which is about 20 miles away

Apareny its the 5th largest fuel refinery in britain

Theres about 40 injuies too

All my wishes with them and hope they recover soon

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:13 am

Just when fuel prices were going down a bit too

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:18 am

i wouldn't worry too much about fuel prices mate, its mainly aviation fuel that is being burned at present, the motor fuel is apparently in a different part of the refinery.
4 serious and 30 minor injuries the bbc report. best wishes to them!

PoloCornwall · Post by **PoloCornwall** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 11:59 am

mate lives over thier about a mile away i asked if he could hear it? he said "hear it?" and turned on his webcam

OMEGASUPR3ME · Post by **OMEGASUPR3ME** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:14 pm

that aint good! my thoughts r with those poor bastads

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 2:32 pm

he's got a fair old view of it from where he is!! did he sustain any damage to his home at all?
people were calling the bbc saying that they heard the explosion where they were, places like norfolk, london etc.
then someone txt saying that they heard the explosion rumbles in holland!!!!

mfa-polo · Post by **mfa-polo** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:17 pm

Sounds like it was lucky there were so few injuries, for the scale of the explosion.

Best wishes to everyone involved.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 3:36 pm

I went to Luton earlier and you can see it from the area around the airport.

Tris · Post by **Tris** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:35 pm

Drove from my house in southwest London to northwest London today to see family, it was sunny when we left but dark foggy when we got there

Hope everyone recovers ok, I hear some workers got badly burnt

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:49 pm

yup only about 20 miles away from where i live, once the fog lifted from where i worked we took our kids for a walk up a hill and could see just a wall of black smoke some miles away
you could even smell it as the wind was coming our way, decided not to take them out again after watching the lunchtime news and hearing that the smoke is possibly letting off an irritant!
They reckon its going to take 5 days to put the fire out, as there is still one tank of oil that hasn't exploded and its only a matter of time they say.

The M1 was shut around here and they are saying that the m25 junction 19 might be closed tomorrow morning because of the position of it and that it will be a north wind tomorrow.

Did anyone see the pictures from a sattelite image? astonishing!

lucky that no one was seriously hurt!

-Ben-

Tris · Post by **Tris** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:52 pm

Sattalite images? Where!

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:55 pm

they showed it on the news!
it could be seen from space and was the area the size of london and surrounding areas

-Ben-

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:59 pm

I saw that, he was saying that area there is your normal Nimbus cloud, and that black area of cloud is the smoke

Just hope the seriously injured pull through.

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:13 am

Terrible news!!

My ancle said he head a bang... Probably hearing things but if not must've been a hell of a bang...