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68 killed in Jiangsu factory blast

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Robertt S:
I am sure you remember this event Shaun.  http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23059948/ns/us_news-life/t/found-dead-ga-sugar-refinery-blast/#.U-GDKmNHKvk

shaun:
Yes Robert I do remember that one.  We learned about in firefighter classes.

Yes Maxx those fires are bad.  But what makes a dust fire so bad is that happens so quick that you don't have time to react to it.  It flashed just like a flash fire and the heat is intense just like a flash fire but it happens in mere seconds rather than minutes.  A real flash fire is an oxygen deprived area that has been smoldering for a long while and then suddenly oxygen is introduced and flashed.  That is why you see in movies firefighters touching doors to see if they are hot before entering.

The most common grain fire that happens when the grain is still active (moist).  It can store heat for days that you never see possibly even smolder some without ever catching fire, but let a little grain dust catch fire and it is all over, or let wind fan it into a flame and it is over, or someone ignites it will a fuse like a cigarette and it is over.  But this process takes a while to happen.

The de-composition process produces heat and if it isn't regulated correctly it will catch fire.

Dust fires happen instantly with some kind of a spark.  As I would suspect with this one in China.  Someone threw a cigarette butt into a dusty area and a chain reaction happened so quickly that the first people to see it were dead before they could react.  The explosions more than likely were flammable solvents that were or had been opened.  With the heat factor because of summer the vapors were hanging around and as soon as the fast burning dust fire hit Armageddon it the factory.

Willy The Londoner:
The authorities have suspended work at more than 200 factories in the area doing similar work until the officials have checked each out.

Willy

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