• Chemical Fire at Port of Metro Vancouver. Evacuation Orders Briefly Issued
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[t]http://i.imgur.com/MDsdnzB.jpg[/t] [img]http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/cms/binary/10861933.jpg?size=620x400s[/img][img]http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/cms/binary/10861892.jpg?size=620x400s[/img] [quote]A four-alarm chemical fire broke out at Port Metro Vancouver, one of Canada's busiest ports today, forcing locals to stay indoors for several hours as fire crews battled the heavy smoke and fire. The city and health authorities shut down parts of the downtown core and told residents to stay indoors to avoid exposure to the harmful smoke. Shortly after 6 p.m. PT, Vancouver fire officials said the order to stay indoors was lifted. Vancouver Coastal Health said trichloroisocyanuric acid, a hazardous organic compound that can be used as an industrial disinfectant, fuelled the fire at the container terminal.[/quote] [quote]John Parker-Jervis, a spokesman for Port Metro Vancouver, said the terminal was shut down and employees sent home. The port's operations on the south shore of Burrard Inlet were also shut down, including railway and truck access. According to Vancouver fire assistant chief Ron Coulson, firefighters got the call around 1:40 p.m. PT. The fire started in one of the large containers "buried deep within the pile of containers that are normally stacked up here at the dock," Coulson said. [/quote] [quote]Emergency services had set up an evacuation zone of 800 metres as the chemical is a respiratory irritant. There have been no injuries reported.[/quote] [url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/port-metro-vancouver-chemical-fire-safe-to-go-outdoors-again-1.2982024]**SOURCE**[/url] So for once it wasn't the smell of the chicken rendering plant that kept you indoors.
I was curious about what the chemical fire consisted of, but now i'm more interested in this chicken rendering plant, and why something that produces a presumably horrible smell is in a major city rather than somewhere just outside it.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;47262451]I was curious about what the chemical fire consisted of, but now i'm more interested in this chicken rendering plant, and why something that produces a presumably horrible smell is in a major city rather than somewhere just outside it.[/QUOTE] Well you have breweries and shit in cities and shit, they can smell pretty awful.
Breweries smell pretty dank. Especially when they have a bad batch and instead of dumping it properly they stick a hose to the tank and let it drain outside. It was so rank that day near Lonsdale Quay.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;47262451]I was curious about what the chemical fire consisted of, but now i'm more interested in this chicken rendering plant, and why something that produces a presumably horrible smell is in a major city rather than somewhere just outside it.[/QUOTE] Between the docks and the sugar silos (and not far from this chemical fire), West Coast Reduction runs a plant that renders animal gibs, notably chickens from the processing plants a few blocks over. On a hot day when the breeze is going the right direction you can only wish you were dead. I think in the last few years though the city forced them to cut down on emissions so it isn't as bad anymore.
There isn't quite a word that brings such vivid imagery as "rend".
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