Big gas Explosion in Switzerland
 

My former hometown where I grew up was shocked yesterday by a massive gas explosion of around 300 gas bottles. I even could hear the explosions 20 kms away!

Fortunately, nobody was hurt! Roads were closed, the nearby train track (10 m away) and highway (100 m away) too. Over 100 firemen were on duty.

My father was just on the opposite side of the road at a car exhibiton, when it all begann. He stopped the traffic and then ran away like never before.

Some videos in Swiss German:
http://www.telem1.ch/videoplayer.php?id=8146
http://www.telem1.ch/videoplayer.php?id=8144
http://www.zofingertagblatt.ch/?srv=...23832&pg=wiggi

Greetings
Chris

G'day Chris,
I'm glad your father was ok. I recon I would disappear pretty fast too.
Just glad no one was hurt.
Regards Rick (and Jill).

Chris,

Scary...to say the least. I was just watching one of those disaster programs on Discovery Channel yesterday, with a similar accident in the US a few years back.

Alex

Glad no one was killed at that explosion. Here is the big one we had last year. It was in Toronto at a propane transfer station. It was during trasfer that a spark lit the propane on one truck. Sadly 1 firefighter was killed due to a heart attack that next day.

On a side note, the facility was in the middle of a residential area. People were complaining after wards about why such a place was allowed to exist with so many homes near it. Sadly the plant had been there for some time and it was the city that allowed all the homes to be built so close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pan1t...eature=related