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Grain silo Fire this morning;
montanajoe
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about the center of town,
Reported at 7 am, crews still on scene hitting flare ups. Brought in heavy equip. to uncover hot spots.
Requested aid from state fire investigators.
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What a mess! Grain dust is not only flammable but pretty darned explosive. Bob
Where ???
Real dangerous. This happened in NC a few days ago
https://www.bakersfield.com/ap/national/thousands-flee-homes-near-n-carolina-fertilizer-plant-fire/article_ba0692c7-dd5a-5cb6-879f-1b32975000b4.html#:~:text=The%20Winston%20Weaver%20Co.%20fertilizer%20plant%20in%20Winston-Salem%2C,the%20danger%20of%20a%20large%20explosion.%20Walt%20Unks
Grain bin fires scared me almost as bad as propane and gasoline storage yards when I was a fireman . We had three huge feed mills / grain storage facilities along with a railroad tank farm that handled all the fuel for a major air force base.
Belgrade, Mt.
Wife and I use serve on a local Fire Dept. We were driver/operators. This got our heart rate a little faster this morn when we saw this.
Absolutely
About the center of town.
about mile and half as crow fly
about just off center of town
Dang.
Spontaneous combustion? Damn.
Think of what they could do with that corn at the Jack Daniels Distillery.
Since grain dust is explosive I have always hoped it could be used as a gunpowder replacement. That would really cheapen up the practice of reloading your own ammo. Or maybe the brainy people could figure out how to mix it with air and run a car engine with it. Seems as though a computer could do that.
There was a bad fire around here at a pie factory several years ago. A giant flour silo went up and yes there was an explosion. IMMIC the cause was static electricity.
We were taught the rule of thumb gauge back in my VFD days.
Interesting how rats flee a burning building man will run into it😓