Refinery Explosion on SE side

[Europhyllia]

http://www.kens5.com/news/local/Repo...-92876584.html

Good thing I am meeting everybody today at Polly's instead of my usual Brooks City Base.
Looks like if you don't have to travel to that area it might be best to avoid it until it's under control.

[Pennies2Cents]

Prayin' for everyone out there!

[Neptune@gabesfish]

was wondering what happen all fire trucks from down the street took off down highway

[hobogato]

must be bad if they are pulling trucks from way up there.

[Pennies2Cents]

Courtesy of Kens5

[FireWater]

It is a bad one. I heard estimates that up to 2/3rd of SAFD's equipment is out there. Long day for those guys and I hope all involved are OK.

[puretexn]

Loud explosions could be heard at the Radiance Academy, a charter school on the corner of South Presa and Military. Marcus Burgos works at the school and quickly had to evacuate 120 students.
"The lights went out just as we were lining the children up to take them out," Burgos said. "Fortunately we have monthly fire drills and because of that practice everyone was able to get them out safely.”

WTF? Fire drills are to get out of the burning building you are IN. Usually it's get out of the building and rally in the parking lot. The last place you want to be when a refinery is on fire is out in the open with a potential highly toxic atmosphere floating around. Plus you don't want to be in the open when explosions are going on. What goes up, must come down.

"Shelter in Place" would have been the way to go until the proper authorities arrived to assist in a safe evacuation.

Just my .02, I was not there, so I don't know the details, but this type of situation is my job.

Great to see it was not catastrophic.

[captexas]

WTF? Fire drills are to get out of the burning building you are IN. Usually it's get out of the building and rally in the parking lot. The last place you want to be when a refinery is on fire is out in the open with a potential highly toxic atmosphere floating around. Plus you don't want to be in the open when explosions are going on. What goes up, must come down.

"Shelter in Place" would have been the way to go until the proper authorities arrived to assist in a safe evacuation.

Just my .02, I was not there, so I don't know the details, but this type of situation is my job.

Great to see it was not catastrophic.

Yeah, probably not the best choice without knowing exactly what the situation was outside. Hard to tell the timing of events from that part of the article, but it sounds like they lined up the students after the explosion. This could have been simply to move them to a central location. Then the power went out, probably from CPS cutting the power to the area as a safety precaution for the fire crews. From what I saw on the news last night, they soon loaded all the kids on buses and moved to a safe location outside the evacuation zone. So they weren't exactly kept standing outside there. Supposedly some people from the nearby apartments even came out and stopped traffic to allow for the buses to get out of the parking lot.

[Gseclipse02]

crazyiness i thought it was raining on that side of the town when i left the shop . i was going that direction for a service call than noticed what happen .... wasnt sure what happen but now i know... sad day