There is a crew of professional clean-up personnel on site from a company based in Louisiana that specializes in cleaning up these kinds of large scale industrial accidents. As I understand it, they have dug a containment ditch around the site and laid absorbent materials in it to control the fire-fighting runoff and keep it out of the local watershed. The nearby river has multiple containment booms across it with professional people closely monitoring it all. Lots of questions about this fire and the real cleanup work has yet to begin. That said, someone wasted no time in getting the right help on site quickly, and started dealing with the impacts immediately, even before the fire was under control. They will need time to get a handle on something this massive.
Tragedy strikes and everyone heads to you tube to talk about how they could do a better job taking care of the situation and complaining about everything. You people need help!
@@robertheinkel6225 What about the rest of the "hot spots", that the single stream isn't reaching? This is nothing more than someone's decision to "Make it look like we're doing something about this."
I conduct incident investigations for my facility and I guarantee they have every single plant person in separate rooms telling the story. The maintenance logs and anything else are being looked at.
@@Dr.BenDoverM.D Inside the building that is no longer there? Unless they up loaded all that data to the cloud or personal laptop, I would think it is gone. That is what I was getting at.
@@DieselRamcharger Rockford at Avon and School St went from zero crime to gunfights in the afternoon in two years. Bout 1972, it's was a ghetto. Google map it now. Vacant lots where house used to be. Too bad for them but good riddance for us.
here in nj they call it the neptune system. theres a large pump, in this case, near the river which supplies a 12" line (the blue one). there's a manifold which allows 5" LDH (red lines) lines to connect into it. This supplies more water than the city could ever think of to a fire such as this. The truck with the deck gun is most likely a high pressure pumper flowing upwards of around 2000 gpm. The deck gun itself is most likely 4" or 5" (look at fdny satellite trucks). There is no foam being used in this video but there is most likely a way to connect a foam tender to it.
So what’ll probably happen is the owner of this facility will be sued, then they’ll just file for bankruptcy and actually get paid. The people this will end up hurting is the workers who will lose their jobs, and us tax payers.
@@dieselscience if they file for bankruptcy, then it falls on the US government to figure out how to clean it A.K.A. Tax money. It’s probably millions of dollars to clean.
@@oinchadoomandwolfboy No. Not even close. Corporations that handle that much hazmat are mandated to be bonded and carry blanket "knock-for-knock" liability insurance. I'm sure you don't know about it but that's OK. The only problem comes when the ambulance chasers see dollar signs and start their bullshit.
Everyone really believe this was an accident?? Nobody has a clue what the impact this is going to have on trucking and interstate commerce. Get ready for higher costs.
@@jimburns348 thsu have other factories man. Just cuz one plant goes down dont mean were screwed. I LIVE in the area and they have like 4 more plants in the next 250 miles of my house. Critical thinking goes a long way
There is a crew of professional clean-up personnel on site from a company based in Louisiana that specializes in cleaning up these kinds of large scale industrial accidents. As I understand it, they have dug a containment ditch around the site and laid absorbent materials in it to control the fire-fighting runoff and keep it out of the local watershed. The nearby river has multiple containment booms across it with professional people closely monitoring it all.
Lots of questions about this fire and the real cleanup work has yet to begin. That said, someone wasted no time in getting the right help on site quickly, and started dealing with the impacts immediately, even before the fire was under control. They will need time to get a handle on something this massive.
Thank you for a decent, sensible remark.
Thanks Bob.hope the media relays your info.we need products.accident happens.Glad no one was apparently hurt.
Thank you for posting this.
Tragedy strikes and everyone heads to you tube to talk about how they could do a better job taking care of the situation and complaining about everything. You people need help!
Tragedy?millions of dollars in scrap copper,metal,aluminum. I'd say it's a gold mine for the scrap dealers. Yep,it's a tragedy,not so fast,
Wonder how many gallons used to knock down flames.
Going to be a HUGE mess to clean up and where are they going to dump it?
Maybe in Biden's office?
China will end up with the copper,steel,aluminum.
@@olivertaylor8788 True, good point.
There is many tons of steel. That be washed of contaminants. Then cut up as scrap. To be recycled. The rest well that is a different story.
Oh,they got a plan,scrap copper is like gold metal aluminum it's all dollars.will be very little dump bound.
Doesn't even look like much metal left
Lithium fires burn very hot
Watch for a spike in cancer cases within a 20 mile radius but especially within the first mile radius.
This is where a helicopter water tanker would be nice...
One engine putting water on the building & about a dozen or more in the parking lot. This is gonna burn or smolder for days.
There is no fire, just smoldering debris. The fire depot is just keeping hot spots from re-ignighting. This is a normal process in any fire.
@@robertheinkel6225 What about the rest of the "hot spots", that the single stream isn't reaching?
This is nothing more than someone's decision to "Make it look like we're doing something about this."
Job. Losses. Terrible
With the intense heat of the fire how will they determine the how and why of this disastrous event?
Maintenance logs and standard operating procedures and witnesses inside of the building
Incident investigations done by the Chemical Safety Board will find out.
I conduct incident investigations for my facility and I guarantee they have every single plant person in separate rooms telling the story. The maintenance logs and anything else are being looked at.
@@hhlech2852 I work for harcros I'm very familiar with chemtool
@@Dr.BenDoverM.D Inside the building that is no longer there? Unless they up loaded all that data to the cloud or personal laptop, I would think it is gone. That is what I was getting at.
looks crazy. what happened?
Glad we moved in 1970.
Otherwise this could've been me.
man you barely missed it by 50 years.....
@@DieselRamcharger
Rockford at Avon and School St went from zero crime to gunfights in the afternoon in two years. Bout 1972, it's was a ghetto. Google map it now. Vacant lots where house used to be. Too bad for them but good riddance for us.
Now shouldn't the Shareholders of this company be forced to pay for the ecological damage from this monstrosity?
good luck with that proposition
they didn't start it or have anything to do with it.
Chemtool is a division of the Lubrizol Corportion, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. What do you think will happen?
@@EReznok Well thank you for that info!
@@EReznok Well they have plenty of Shareholders to kick in then. I love how people think buffet is such a good guy....lol
Wow water on a chem fire. Magnificent
Most of the petroleum product already burned up, as they planned. Other materials can still have hot spots. Or what would you prefer them to do?
Did you see any current flames, or just hot spots smoldering?
Was thinking about the run off
What diameter is that stream? Is it discharging any foam?
It most likely is discharging foam. To my view the apparatus discharging that stream is an industrial firefighting apparatus.
Not sure diameter but that supply line feeding that truck looks like its 8" - 12". Some sort of super pumper
here in nj they call it the neptune system. theres a large pump, in this case, near the river which supplies a 12" line (the blue one). there's a manifold which allows 5" LDH (red lines) lines to connect into it. This supplies more water than the city could ever think of to a fire such as this. The truck with the deck gun is most likely a high pressure pumper flowing upwards of around 2000 gpm. The deck gun itself is most likely 4" or 5" (look at fdny satellite trucks). There is no foam being used in this video but there is most likely a way to connect a foam tender to it.
if no one is held responsible... wow
do you think someone deliberately started it????
@@watchgoose time will tell
If you go to Rockford scanner their are some more details on what caused the fire to start.
So what’ll probably happen is the owner of this facility will be sued, then they’ll just file for bankruptcy and actually get paid. The people this will end up hurting is the workers who will lose their jobs, and us tax payers.
OR, they have a contingency plan, insurance, and advisors. They will most likely rebuild.
HOW are 'us tax payers' going to hurt.
@@dieselscience if they file for bankruptcy, then it falls on the US government to figure out how to clean it A.K.A. Tax money. It’s probably millions of dollars to clean.
@@watchgoose I doubt it, not after an event like this. Maybe if it didn’t release so much pollution and literally burn the whole facility down.
@@oinchadoomandwolfboy No. Not even close. Corporations that handle that much hazmat are mandated to be bonded and carry blanket "knock-for-knock" liability insurance. I'm sure you don't know about it but that's OK. The only problem comes when the ambulance chasers see dollar signs and start their bullshit.
Need a D9 dozer to start pushing it up
Jesse and Walter back at it again...
One hose?
That lubricant burning some zinc maybe
25 Fire Truck. Only one pumping
01:30 XL Deck Gun!
Well that’s a write off
i wonder why they dont use air tankers on this kind of fire
this is a grease fire ...Y know what happens when you add water to a grease fire it explodes
@@MrToddtimmons This is not a grease fire. It is a chemical fire.
Due to the vicinity to the town and the type of accelerant. Air drops would be extremely inefficient and dangerous.
@@dallascode3880 with lots of petroleum products.
@@dallascode3880 actually in the middle of the facility is their Grease department where is made. It was the biggest product department in the plant.
Going to have to wash the contaminants off the asbestos in hononegah
No grease great no semi trucks, heavy equipment,elevators,cars where do you stop? Funny stuff..lol. Praise the Lord Jesus daily
Damn what a Big mess !!! God bless all the fire fighters !!! 💯🇺🇸🗽🦅
Just like a women from rockton , hot but burn's for 3 days afterwards
that was in depth
Ouch🤣🤣🤣
needs spelling lessons again.
opps messy...
Luckily no pollution of any kind resulted from this accident. It's amazing
You are looking at the Pollution in every vid… including this one…
Right?
At least the motorboaters (no, not that kind) and jet skiers will have the pristine RR w/o any icky petro chem to deal with.
@@StEve-zt5pc It's pure sarcasm girl, I know its bad. Cheers
Global warming problem?
Everyone really believe this was an accident?? Nobody has a clue what the impact this is going to have on trucking and interstate commerce. Get ready for higher costs.
WORKERS said it was an accident my friend. I live near rockton no one plans to derail people like this
@@Superheaven.ascended go back to sleep.
they have other factories..
@@jimburns348 thsu have other factories man. Just cuz one plant goes down dont mean were screwed. I LIVE in the area and they have like 4 more plants in the next 250 miles of my house. Critical thinking goes a long way
@@jimburns348 their gonna see more demand from the other regional facilities sure, but tgat means costs may change like a dollar or two. Thats it