[QUOTE=Telegraph]The fire in Smethwick, West Midlands, involved 50,000 tonnes of plastic recycling material and a factory unit, and has been declared a major incident.
It sent a plume of smoke rising 6,000ft into the air and Birmingham International Airport has been alerted.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=BBC]The fire has been blamed on Chinese lanterns that dropped on the plastics.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02604/smethwick-fire_2604580b.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23123549[/url]
[url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10151959/Fire-fighters-in-hospital-as-Smethwick-blaze-set-to-burn-for-days.html[/url]
I just got into my office a couple of miles away and you can see the smoke column. Kind of ironic that a recycling plant is churning thousands of tonnes of toxic gas into the air.
That image reminds me of when Buncefield blown up in 2005.
[QUOTE]The fire has been blamed on Chinese lanterns that dropped on the plastics.[/QUOTE]
Somebody must be feeling like shit right now. Assuming they read the news.
Turning plastic into toxic gas is kind of recycling.
[quote]The fire has been blamed on Chinese lanterns that dropped on the plastics.[/quote]
IT HAS BEGUN. THE CHINESE HAVE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT.
ban all recycling
Can see the smoke from my house too. Woke up wondering what the fuck was going on.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;41261549]Turning plastic into toxic gas is kind of recycling.[/QUOTE]
turning plastic into plastic in the atmosphere is no better than plastic in the ocean
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;41261847]IT HAS BEGUN. THE CHINESE HAVE FIRED THE FIRST SHOT.[/QUOTE]
about that time again ey chaps
I've always said those stupid lantern things would end in disaster. No one believed me!
420 420 blaze plants erry day
This is a few miles away from Facepunch! Woop!
The smoke is so high, I can see it from my house too.
snipple
[QUOTE=garry;41263002]This is a few miles away from Facepunch! Woop![/QUOTE]
Hope you don't need to travel down the M5 any time soon, this morning it was moving at a snails pace because people driving slow to look at the pretty smoke.
I have always wanted an excuse to go to Walsall since I moved to Birmingham for the sake of seeing the FP office (Even though I assume its just some rented space in a big building), seems like there is no reason to ever go there though :( I'm working in Aston and living in the Mailbox.
Chinese lanterns are becoming really popular at weddings and things for some reason, I keep seeing them more and more often and they are pretty dangerous. I've seen them literally vaporise before they were even let off, had loads of them blow back into the building/into trees and even had a case of one flying [I]back in fucking doors.[/I]
[QUOTE=Cushie;41263290]Hope you don't need to travel down the M5 any time soon, this morning it was moving at a snails pace because people driving slow to look at the pretty smoke.
I have always wanted an excuse to go to Walsall since I moved to Birmingham for the sake of seeing the FP office (Even though I assume its just some rented space in a big building), seems like there is no reason to ever go there though :( I'm working in Aston and living in the Mailbox.[/QUOTE]
What's it like living in the Mailbox?
I've always wanted to live there for some reason.
[QUOTE=rhx123;41263778]What's it like living in the Mailbox?
I've always wanted to live there for some reason.[/QUOTE]
Not literally in the flats above the Mailbox, the I live in the ones that the restaurants out the back are facing. Nice flats though, and its good to be 10 minutes walk from everything (Or 30 second walk from restaurants/Tesco) One bedroom/living room overlooks the canals and is facing kind of at the Cube.
The only annoying thing is its quite noisy all the time; from 9am onwards you have canal boats beeping their horns right outside the window a few times an hour, the geese living in the area honk/fight really loud, and with the restaurants being right there it tends to be extremely noisy until the early hours of the morning on weekends. Also no fibreoptics available here despite being slap bang in the middle of the city.
Was originally gonna go for a flat on the 30-somethingth floor of the Radisson, but it was quite pricey for what it was, the one at the Mailbox was way cheaper, had about the same room and was in a nicer location.
I'm sure people experimented with devices similar to Chinese lanterns, as incendiary weapons of war...
Bombingham 2.0
Keep in mind this is because once aluminum starts burning, it don't stop. Same thing with titanium, which [b]explodes[/b] when it hits critical temperatures.
Fun stuff
damn how big is this blaze also where were the fire management systems at said recycling plant, i mean with hundreds of tons of plastics,paper, and different metal types, something was bound to happen
I can see the smoke from my house.......... I live a bit closer to it than Garry. Yep still going
[QUOTE=garry;41263002]This is a few miles away from Facepunch! Woop![/QUOTE]
Until you said that, I thought they meant Birmingham, Alabama in the US.
[QUOTE=garry;41263002]This is a few miles away from Facepunch! Woop![/QUOTE]
You're risk of cancer just went up.
I never understood the thought process between chinese candles anyway.
"hey lets make a lantern out of very dry paper and wood! What can POSSIBLY go wrong?"
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