Posted on 02/07/2010 9:27:40 AM PST by malamute
An explosion in Middletown, Connecticut has rocked the town. Initial reports are that about a dozen people have been injured.
Middletown, United States - The Middletown Fire Department just said in a phone interview that they are in the process of putting out a second alarm. There are an unknown number of casualities. The explosion took place at NRG Power Plant on River Road. According to their web site they are the fossil-fueled electric generating plant in the state. Reports are saying that the blast could be felt as far away as Durham.
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I live in Ledyard,(SE CT) and I felt it here. It was just a distant boom; didn’t think anything of it at the time. Damn.
Dainty CT banned coal as a fuel over 10 years ago. This appears to be a natural gas explosion.
You would think that testing could be done during business hours instead of forcing workers to sacrifice worship on a Sunday morning. Oh this is CT, nevermind. Very few CTites that believe in God anymore.
In the same way a poster pointed out that we would never hear if terrorism is involved in any event these days — we will never hear if the push for ‘clean’ energy caused a compromise of human safety for the ‘clean’ cause.
That is not a power plant. No electrical transmission lines.
Could be Hartford Courant articles
Natural gas maybe be ‘clean’ but it is certainly more volatile than oil or coal. Oil and coal don’t go beserk at the presence of a simple flame. More ‘clean-ness’ at the expense of human safety.
Right. Terrorism is only terrorism if there’s no hiding it.
The folks at TMI, no. The folks at Chernobyl might disagree!
State Route 9 runs right by there, I-91 unaffected.
If it was terrorism I'd be looking at the reporter's environmentalist whacko pals in the Bill Ayers gang based in large part upon this comment, "...they are the fossil-fueled electric generating plant..."
Seriously... What does that have to do with the explosion? Unless of course you're an environmentalist moonbat terrorist hell bent on teaching those evil oil barons a lesson by blowing up their plant.
JMHO
Drudge headline:
At Least 100 Hurt, And “Confirmed Fatalities” After Explosion At Middletown, Conn. Power Plant...
Nearby homes said to be damaged...
You’re probably correct. I can’t find cooling towers or intake structure for cooling either.
Chernobyl doesn’t count. It was soviet and a casulty of the cold war
unsure of fatalities at this point, I know a few
Betsy Hard, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, told The Associated Press that multiple people died but she did not know how many.
Fifty construction workers were in the section of the power plant where the explosion happened at 11:17 a.m., said Al Santostefano, the deputy fire marshal in Middletown. He said he did not know what caused the explosion.
Hospitals that were treating the 14 wounded said late Sunday afternoon that they weren’t expecting more patients.
Dogs were searching for victims in the rubble, but there were no signs of life Sunday afternoon, he said.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/02/07/gas_explosion_fire_at_power_plant_in_conn/
Awaitin news conference in an hr per FNC
Bump in truth
Police retract statement that 2 died in Connecticut explosion
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/07/connecticut.explosion/
Middletown police Sgt. Chuck Jacobucci initially said two people had been killed, but later told CNN he had misinterpreted something heard on a police radio.
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