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Explosion in Beirut


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20 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Yes, really. 

Unless of course it turns out to be deliberate sabotage upon a well secured storage facility. 

Well, aye

I was amazed a reporter felt it necessary to point it out

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Grim! I attended an incident early in my career; about 1987 ish, where a pit deputy (foreman) had collected sticks of dynamite and ended his life with them strapped to his body. Imagine the aftermath of that and then multiply by a few thousand tons of high explosive.

 

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2 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Grim! I attended an incident early in my career; about 1987 ish, where a pit deputy (foreman) had collected sticks of dynamite and ended his life with them strapped to his body. Imagine the aftermath of that and then multiply by a few thousand tons of high explosive.

 

My dads mate told me some stories to purposely put me off being a firefighter 

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11 minutes ago, MickyD said:

Grim! I attended an incident early in my career; about 1987 ish, where a pit deputy (foreman) had collected sticks of dynamite and ended his life with them strapped to his body. Imagine the aftermath of that and then multiply by a few thousand tons of high explosive.

 

A similar sounding incident in little lever some time ago.

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1 hour ago, Rudy said:

My dads mate told me some stories to purposely put me off being a firefighter 

i know

horrible things like,

having 2 jobs , one of which is cash in hand

having to sleep whilst working nights

having to to put out pretend fires in the backyard of the fire station

terrible .

 

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