At least The people and companies behind the demolition took responsibility for their actions and even went out of their way to fix the damage And clean the surrounding areas that they caused. This could have been a lot worse but at least they apologized and they fixed the mess they made that shows great Character right there. Wish the entire companies in our country who mistakes and cause people to lose their lives do the same thing.
No they didn't. They knew exactly what was going to happen and still tried to pull their snake oil salesmen BS Just Google "Crawford Power Station Stack Little Village Chicago" The same company got hit with huge fines for polluting the adjacent neighborhood with carcinogens. 10,000+cases of cancer from the exposure to the dust from the WTC collapse. It's the same dust. It's the Respirable silica thats to blame.
yeah it sounds like they were staged and ready to go. i would assume they drenched the landing area to control dust, but maybe coal dust doesn't quite work like that.
To all the people here who are assuming some ill intent on the demolition company: sometimes Things just go wrong. In this case, the stack was supposed to crumple as it fell. It didn’t act as expected and fell over like a bowling pin, causing the air inside to get forced out the end at high velocity. The company didn’t try to avoid responsibility, they began restoration work immediately.
@@kebo57It wasn't the dust cloud that was the problem. It was the high pressure air that came out the end. If the stack had crumbled on its way down, it wouldn't have been an issue.
@@Studio23Mediaagain, the mistake occurred. A company can claim to be repairing things immediately. I just am not sure what a power washer would do if my windows were blown in, rooms filled with dust, electronics destroyed, and power down. 😂
At least , it seems nobody was injured . I remember when my grandfather worked at the chicken feed plant, they were knocking down the chimney and he was standing too close and got hit by the debris . Broke his leg . I was probably only about 5 or 6 at the time , but I can still picture him in the living room to his house in the hospital bed they had setup for him .
Fred Dibnah also felled chimneys in the traditional Victorian way. He would have a wedge shaped section of brickwork removed from the base of the chimney, replacing the bricks with stout wooden props as he went. He then had other burnable rubbish placed around the base. He would then set fire to all this, and the chimney would draw the fire and make it burn hotter. In time, the props would burn away, and the chimney would come crashing down.
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@@DanniDuck YT is showing counts on some channels bur not on others. Seems like YT wants certain videos to not draw attention by hiding Comment Counts.
@@Plutogalaxy Did you care when they took away the thumbs down bar? If not, then you're probably good little sheep so don't worry your pretty little head about it and just enjoy the left corner of the bell curve.
Well, on other demolitions I've seen the area where the object was coming down to was extensively watered in addition to a sprinkler screen right around the base of the object in order to keep dust contained. Doesnt look like they done that here, so its pressure washer time...
Hadn’t a clue of who Fred Dibnah was, but queried him here on TH-cam. Astonishing what a steeple Jack in his time did routinely, including going up the ladder on a chimney 100’s of feet high WITHOUT ANY safety harness, or essentially, anything else, except a short handled mallet & a heavy chisel! 👍
Nice to hear Fred get a mention on here! ⚒️🇬🇧 I regret not trying to seek him out at The Hollowell Steam fair in Northamptonshire in 1994/5(not sure). He was mobbed by fans!! Once on the podium to introduce the moment when all the engines sounds their whistles he took off his hat and said right down the microphone:. "Eeeee it's fooo##n smokey int it!!!!" Guy got a cheer. What a hero. So sad his workshop didn't become a heritage centre bless his soul. 🌞
So they decided to bring down an old structure, IN AN OLD COAL YARD, but didnt think that dust was going to be an issue? Why not soak that entire landing area with water BEFORE hitting the button??!!
The dust wasn't from the coal yard. It was the 50 years of soot in the stack and a little dirt. I lived near there and that yard was black when it was operating.
I expect there will be lawsuits. Windows blown out, trees knocked over and smokestack dust in every crevice imaginable. Power washing will be a drop in the bucket. The dust they power wash off buildings will still be all over the ground and people will be walking in it. Probably doesn't smell so great, either. It doesn't address the dust that will be on the trees, in people's cars, clothes, etc. That demolition was not done with anticipation of what could happen, and because they were smokestacks and not just buildings, perhaps it could have been done in pieces from the top somehow. It looked like they just blew it up from the bottom, probably the cheapest and worst way to go with something this tall.
Plus the town is right along the river !! So all that dust they hose off will end up in the river . And that river alot of towns draw their water from !
When the gas supply is interrupted to the new gas fired plant many will wish the coal fired plant was still in operation. You could store coal on site, how much gas can you keep on hand? The USA can't save the planet.
It was a curse of getting rid of a coal fired power plant. Should have left it alone. Even China is allowed to have coal fired power plants all over the place over there.
The percentage of this is very low even with the best laid plans. There's always a risk of something like this to happen on any type of demolition. The companies were doing what they should as professionals. I wouldn't let a situation like this tarnish anyone's reputation.
@@jojoavila2217 You really think that President Biden would want this kind of a failure? Take the cotton out of your ears, turn OFF Faux news & Newsmax, take your head OUT of your backside, & rejoin the REAL anti-fascist, anti-neonazi world!
@@almostontimehero5415 That's not usually how these things work. Towers like that are tapered and designed to be strong against lateral forces, as in wind loads or falling, and have design parameters to keep them from collapsing under their own weight. There is no way you could blast a tower like that and have it "collapse in" as there is no space within the structure for the debris to collapse into.. Google any videos of tower demolition - brick, metal, water or radio towers and they're all brought down by toppling. Large concrete cooling towers can be made to "implode", but they start the charges from the top down.
One benefit of a one time implosion is there is only 1 cleanup. In more traditional building demolition, a lot more dust is created over a much longer time period. It can last weeks or even months. Removal of dust created by implosion started 15 minutes after the blast. Sometimes things go wrong. Whenever a 500 foot tall structure is bought down, much planning and safety concerns are addressed up front. Even then, no one expected the air pressure inside chimney to cause so much chaos.
You haven't watched many videos showing how chimney's are felled WITHOUT needing to blast and it doesn't take weeks or months. Maybe a few more hours but then I don't know how many hours they spent packing in the blasting material either.
I believe the engineers knew there would be a blast of air but ignored it. So where was all the air inside the chimney supposed to go when it flattened?
The area should of been dosed with water 💦 before hand, to keeping the dust minimal, whenever demolition is taking place, water mist is used to keep dust down!! They were very negligent on there part!!!!
Unfortunately most of the dust - and it is really nasty dust - is a combination of buildup inside the chimney and concrete dust created as it is crushed against the ground. In other words, the dust was a solid mass right up until it wasn't. The only way to get really good dust control is to do the demolition in a absolute downpour, and demolitions like this need a precise schedule with weeks of lead time.
Sounds like a botched demo in my town about six or so years ago; no one died but flying debris injured several spectators, including one man losing his leg.
This happened when they blew up the smokestack in St. Paul MN. The dust cloud hit the crowd. I breathed in a bunch of concrete dust and broke one of my teeth!
I worked there from 2013 until I retired in 2021. Here's what went wrong... Contrary to what the activists said, the old stack was physically isolated from the plant and sealed. There was a small drain valve at the bottom of the stack liner (a steel enclosure that ran the length of the stack) and when I opened it nothing came out after 14 years. The stack had a welded steel cap, visible on satellite view. This created a huge, empty Pringles can. When it fell over the "can" collapsed and the resulting pressure wave blew the cap off the end, resulting in the damage. The new stack at Cheswick and the stack at Elrama didn't do that because the top was open.
The guy is not wrong though. I've swept three times, vacuumed twice, and mopped over and over... and STILL found some drywall dust in places I thought I cleaned.
@@MonkeyJedi99: You so have my sympathy, MJ99… That sounds downright infuriating! (I really hope you are MASKED for lung-protection!) Are you one of the neighborhood victims of this botched demolition? If so, you ought to join or start a Class Action Lawsuit against the company…Whatever happens, Best of Luck to you!
@@nanwilder2853 Oh, the mess was us doing renovations on our mother's house before selling it. We masked and goggled during the demo phase, and ran fan blowing out of the windows in each room we were working on.
Isnt this why you are meant to spray the ground with water during demolitions in dusty environments? As well as spraying the demolition site as it comes down. Something completely absent here.
They definitely should have done that. Most of that dust was from the ground. They also could have put some shipping containers just behind the landing zone to redirect the blast of air and the dust within it. Weird that in 2023 they couldn’t see that coming.
I know this is arm chair quarterbacking, but I would have dropped the tall tower with delayed charges, in thirds or quarters. Set the first charge a third from the top, the second charge 5 sec later two thirds up, and the last charge 5 seconds after that. That way the sections don’t all land at once and when they do land, it’s closer to the base; not all stretched out.
They said in this video that the tall one was not supposed to fall at all. Only the first smokestack was supposed to come down. So imagine if that tall one had fallen a different direction.
@@equestrianrosieThey don't know what they're talking about. It was definitely supposed to come down, but it was supposed to crumble on its way down. Pretty sad local journalism has gotten to the point where they just share stories from across the country, and can't the get basic details right.
Not really a joking matter. Coal dust like that is very toxic and gets so deep into every crevice that total clean up is really impossible. The company will do what it must until it is bankrupt but that was a mess.
Once Dust such as this enters the lungs, it's not that there's a simple way to remove it. The Alveoli is where Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide are Exchanged during Respiration. "The alveoli are just one cell in thickness, allowing the gas exchange of respiration to occur rapidly." So, Dust is rather hazardous in itself, and more so if the Dust has properties to it that may be carcinogenic or otherwise Toxic. I don't know if Residents were exposed because the Demolition did not go as planned, but people that were exposed should be entitled to Health Monitoring for a specific period of time to be sure they weren't negatively impacted. And the settled dust, once disturbed again, will again be a health issue. Dust, disturbed by this event, was potentially flammable in such concentrations (a Sugar Processing Plant in the U.S. experienced a huge explosion from ignited Sugar Dust, killing multiple employees). The results may have been especially horrific if the Dust Cloud was possible to ignite. The Company is Accepting Responsibilities, that's reassuring, but saying they are accepting responsibilities, and actually accepting responsibilities, are two different things, the work needing done involves Repairing or Replacing Damaged or Destroyed Electronic Items, Cleaning, Repairing Windows, Decontaminating homes who's windows were broken, Decontaminating homes that had windows open because they were not notified of the need to close the windows since the Demolition did not go as planned, Decontaminating Vehicles, and actually I would think, providing Free Health Screening and Care for people harmed by exposure to the Dust. Domestic Animals in the affected area should likewise be provided Screening and Care.
@@falsemcnuggethope Although a Good Point, the Dust was Discharged in a Less Concentrated form well above the immediate neighborhood, that's why the Stacks are built so tall. More objectionable to me is the Exhaust Gas from private planes owned by people pushing climate change. If they want us to Teleconference to Reduce Pollution, why must they get together perhaps multiple times a year and waste fuel and create pollution to talk about people wasting fuel and creating pollution?
The plant had a plate value of 637 MW. That would equal 128 pieces of 5 MW turbines. Obviously it will have quite a bit later footprint than the plant, but it evens out somewhat once you take into account the coal mines and the logistics that the operation requires.
I am confused, do Americans not know that you need to damp the site down before and during demolition in dry weather? It is June and dusty enough in England. Contractors have to do it by law here. Pressure washers are no use they should have had tractor sprayers out first. Even knocking down a garden wall is dusty. I can't even use a leaf blower at this time of year without damping down first. The river is next door.
Do you wankers over there not understand that you should, at a minimum, watch and listen to enough of a story to have a basic grasp of the facts before commenting and showing the world what an ill informed twit you are?
If you watched the video, and listened, they said it didnt go to plan, it was supposed to implode first then fall over slightly, not just tip the whole thing over. just like the first one.
@@xFourTwenty117 Yes, and what is not reported is that it could only mean some of the explosive charges did not go off. They got live explosives lying with the debris.
Must have been a breakdown in the charges. You can see the first tower collapsed properly for about the first 3rd of the way, then the charges failed. This sort of thing isn't extremely uncommon in demo jobs. They're supposed to go down like the towers did. Straight down in on themselves. The hallmark of a correctly done implosion demolition
Yes they all graduated from the " Granada Correspondents School of Engineering " some even graduated with straight " C " averages , they then all did their internships in Calcutta India , now they are all here to bring down the house .
This happened in Chicagoland not to long ago and they had the same issues...especially the dust. You'd think that demolition companies would learn that years of soot in those stacks builds-up and maybe part of the process should be to clean them out before demolition...more cost, yes, but what is cheaper...cleaning them or dealing with the lawsuits?
I thought most of the dust was from the ground beneath the structure being a kind of sooty landfill area... at least, it seems to start before the tower is fully fallen, suggesting the blast wave picking up the earth from bellow. is this incorrect?
Crazy how professional demo experts cant drop a building easily but a few guys in planes hit 2 towers and drop 3 buildings perfectly in on themselves...
@@radiocameron Analyst of the Conspirators.....Get with the damn program..Show me a picture of Michelle Obama with the girls as babies..I'll be here waiting.
I still find it hard to beLIEve it today being that steel burns and melts at a higher temperature then jet fuel. However the cheap tender boxes NY called buildings dis have restruants and science labs but I still think it had to be blown up by some bombs still placed inside. I do t know for sure but bomb sniffing dogs were called off duty a week before 9-11. Toooooooo much loose change. Many people don't know about the dumptruck loaded with gold! Left behind like ducking die hard 😆🤣😆🤣👍
They should have imploded them at the same time. The second stack was falling tilted before the charges went off. Why blow them separate? This is something the demolition explosive experts should chime in on because the first tower's collapse could very well make the other one tilt over, so blow both.
Bummer for the residents! But pretty funny and astute comment from that anchor about the pressure washer combined with broken windows not being the best combination. 😂
Maybe they should have used wetting and binding agents on the coal yard before the demolition. A lot of water and fly ash sprayed on the surface of the coal yard would have prevented this.
@@ChrisBeardsley Lol, that wouldn't make any difference. Most of that dust is from INSIDE the stack and its being blown out by impact with the ground so it is almost like a gun firing. Here is another example, and this one isn't even that high, AND it is being watered down. Still the inside dust from the stack will shoot out at impact. th-cam.com/video/UBH-JhLiTO4/w-d-xo.html
Coal field , the Coal dust still would have been a problem , but yes a much less of a problem , but if they got their Fischer price detonator damp it may not have worked . The boss did get a new Tonka Truck for his birthday .
@@secondchance6603 are you an engineer or graduate high school yet? Or better yet have you been out of the house longer then a couple years to experience anything note worthy? Don't tell me I'm wrong unless you have first hand knowledge cause most of yall on you Tube have not seen half the shit I have.
@@eligebrown8998 "Don't tell me I'm wrong unless you have first hand knowledge cause most of yall on you Tube have not seen half the shit I have." Not only are you wrong you're full of the stuff you claim to have seen half of... shit.
1:01 Oof look at the building w/two windows right in front of the camera; the window on the right side is wide open & ready to receive that plume of awfulness 🤢💀
I took a course in environmental monitoring. To meet environmental regulations which are measured within a radius of a plant (say 60 miles radius), they build very tall smokestacks so that the upper wind blows the pollution elsewhere and out of the testing zone. It was very disheartening to learn.
@@doublewhopper67 No, they're saying the pollution is still being created, it's just blowing to the next town over and affecting all of them; with no reprisals from the EPA since it's not effecting anyone within 60 miles of the structure. If you're at mile 65 with your neighborhood, and 20 years later you have cancer; you're fucked.
How about cut the demolition company a little slack. The giant stack still fell within the coal yard, no one was hurt and they showed up in 15 minutes to pressure wash the exterior of homes, streets, vehicles. Then they learned a lot more went wrong than originally predicted. You don't show up in 15 minutes to pressure wash on a whim, it was built in as a precaution. I'll bet they immediately notified the utilities and were just as professional after the implosion as they were before. So negative, are you people able to see the good? They weren't prepared for an air pressure surge of 750' falling over, it was probably going to collapse the bottom 1/3 like the other one. It would've been better if they had soaked with water the inside of the big tower for dust mitigation prior to the implosion.
This is actually a very dangerous situation for the next few days because since the demolition did not go as plan (not all the charges went off) there are live explosives mixed with the debris.
Next few years. That dust doesn't go away. It just keeps blowing around and around. To make things worse they want to implode the Boilerhouse and cover the respirable silica with a layer of heavy metals, (lead) and all the asbestos they can't get to.
See how the smaller one came down? It dropped a bit and then toppled. The big one was supposed to do the same, but it failed to drop before toppling. That makes a huge difference in A) how much of an air blast comes out of the stack when it hits the ground, and B) how close to the edge of the property the top of the stack end up landing.
my question would be, why they acted so differently... did some of the explosives' not go off? it should be more than the base exploding to make a tower topple inwards....
@@stanislavkostarnov2157 The taller stack had additional reinforcement that was somehow missed and therefore not taken into account when planning the demolition.
At least The people and companies behind the demolition took responsibility for their actions and even went out of their way to fix the damage And clean the surrounding areas that they caused. This could have been a lot worse but at least they apologized and they fixed the mess they made that shows great Character right there. Wish the entire companies in our country who mistakes and cause people to lose their lives do the same thing.
That sounds strange, companies should be responsible for their actions, the cleanup would be mandatory, not a feature.
No they didn't. They knew exactly what was going to happen and still tried to pull their snake oil salesmen BS Just Google "Crawford Power Station Stack Little Village Chicago" The same company got hit with huge fines for polluting the adjacent neighborhood with carcinogens. 10,000+cases of cancer from the exposure to the dust from the WTC collapse. It's the same dust. It's the Respirable silica thats to blame.
yeah it sounds like they were staged and ready to go. i would assume they drenched the landing area to control dust, but maybe coal dust doesn't quite work like that.
@@axhed Doesn't look like it was drenched at all.
yeah because they would have paid alot more money out in lawsuits if they hadnt...cheaper for them this way..
To all the people here who are assuming some ill intent on the demolition company: sometimes Things just go wrong. In this case, the stack was supposed to crumple as it fell. It didn’t act as expected and fell over like a bowling pin, causing the air inside to get forced out the end at high velocity. The company didn’t try to avoid responsibility, they began restoration work immediately.
That smokestack was going to create a huge dust cloud regardless of how it collapsed or fell.
its ill, not i'll. its not "i will intent"
@@kebo57It wasn't the dust cloud that was the problem. It was the high pressure air that came out the end. If the stack had crumbled on its way down, it wouldn't have been an issue.
yea those old things are full of asbestos ain't no fixing a big lung full of that
@@Studio23Mediaagain, the mistake occurred. A company can claim to be repairing things immediately. I just am not sure what a power washer would do if my windows were blown in, rooms filled with dust, electronics destroyed, and power down. 😂
Always nice to see people that are good at their jobs.
Real pros at work on this one. Union? Free lance?
Please don’t hate for this joke
“Amateurs” -Taliban
Not every demolition goes perfect. Some times physics has other plans
@@khootjenkins6248 Correction,
“Amateurs” United States government.
It's only the beginning with the grads today😮😮😮😮
At least , it seems nobody was injured . I remember when my grandfather worked at the chicken feed plant, they were knocking down the chimney and he was standing too close and got hit by the debris . Broke his leg . I was probably only about 5 or 6 at the time , but I can still picture him in the living room to his house in the hospital bed they had setup for him .
:(
They should have got that brave old dude from England to knock her down brick by brick..
he ded
Fred Dibnah also felled chimneys in the traditional Victorian way. He would have a wedge shaped section of brickwork removed from the base of the chimney, replacing the bricks with stout wooden props as he went. He then had other burnable rubbish placed around the base. He would then set fire to all this, and the chimney would draw the fire and make it burn hotter. In time, the props would burn away, and the chimney would come crashing down.
@@crazyleyland5106 yeah but environmental laws would prevent those huge fires of tyres and wood now.
At 750 feet tall, perhaps bringing it down in stages would have been wiser.
For what the lawsuit is gonna cost them it would have been cheaper that way!
I notice that YT is picking and choosing what videos it will hide the comment count. This is one of them.
No they aren't. New videos will show 0. It's probably related to caching, if you know anything about website caching, like weak/strong ETag (cache header), etc..
@@DanniDuck You make websites, I make babies... With your mom. We are not the same.
Still shows no views on different videos after many days so yes they do not show the count in some videos for some reason
@@DanniDuck YT is showing counts on some channels bur not on others. Seems like YT wants certain videos to not draw attention by hiding Comment Counts.
@@Plutogalaxy Did you care when they took away the thumbs down bar? If not, then you're probably good little sheep so don't worry your pretty little head about it and just enjoy the left corner of the bell curve.
Well, on other demolitions I've seen the area where the object was coming down to was extensively watered in addition to a sprinkler screen right around the base of the object in order to keep dust contained. Doesnt look like they done that here, so its pressure washer time...
Lol that would not have helped at all
...out of all the Chimney Fellings I've seen, this one was tragic. Absolutely heartbreaking. Fred Dibnah would be disappointed. AND PISSED.
Finally someone else knows about this guy aha fuck yeah he would be pissed 🍻🤪
Dibnah gang
PRAISE DIBNAH
Accidentally found some of the old BBC footage and was hooked. Fred Dibnah, even 2 sheets to the wind after lunch was still a better man than I.
Fred was a friend of my Grandad in Bolton (he was everybody's friend in Bolton) I got to meet him when I was a kid, at his house.
Hadn’t a clue of who Fred Dibnah was, but queried him here on TH-cam. Astonishing what a steeple Jack in his time did routinely, including going up the ladder on a chimney 100’s of feet high WITHOUT ANY safety harness, or essentially, anything else, except a short handled mallet & a heavy chisel! 👍
60 feet or 600, no difference when you come to a stop.
@@ShortArmOfGod But the higher the drop the more time you have to crap yourself!
Nice to hear Fred get a mention on here! ⚒️🇬🇧
I regret not trying to seek him out at The Hollowell Steam fair in Northamptonshire in 1994/5(not sure). He was mobbed by fans!!
Once on the podium to introduce the moment when all the engines sounds their whistles he took off his hat and said right down the microphone:. "Eeeee it's fooo##n smokey int it!!!!"
Guy got a cheer. What a hero. So sad his workshop didn't become a heritage centre bless his soul. 🌞
Goddamn treasure Fred Dibnah was .
And bringing down HUGE chimney stacks in the process without all the fuss and bother that blasting them seems to cause.
I really appreciate the camaraderie between these anchors. Very natural together.
without Fred Dibnah there's no way that chimney was coming down properly
I could hear Slim Pickens riding that second chimney to the ground.
1941!
Yeehaw!
Yes! "Dr. Strangelove, or 'How I learned to live with the bomb", Great book and flick by Stanley Kubrick. A must watch every year, lol.
If you watch it every year, you should know the actual title is "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"
You people truly understand
Props to the demo company though for immediately stepping up though
Props though to your comment thought acknowledging the company though
So they decided to bring down an old structure, IN AN OLD COAL YARD, but didnt think that dust was going to be an issue? Why not soak that entire landing area with water BEFORE hitting the button??!!
The dust wasn't from the coal yard. It was the 50 years of soot in the stack and a little dirt. I lived near there and that yard was black when it was operating.
Aren’t they suppose to dampen that dirt first?
Suppose to come straight down. However if they'd hired you they could have saved themselves froma whole lot of awfulness.
@@FirstnameLastname-tp4zw They can hire me because i watched every fred dibnah episode and know how it is done.
yes, every professional demolition company soaks the surrounding exposed soil to prevent THIS from happening
That was my first thought too.
@@FirstnameLastname-tp4zwfirst name ass last name hat , She's right so shut your condescending mouth.
01:05 - 'that took a long time'... ... At 750 feet tall, I'd imagine it would take a while to come down, that's gravity for you!
Lawsuits incoming in 3,2,1
@Karl with a K Wrong. They will be over 1 quintillion dollars.
Its ok the inflation reduction act is paying for it...are wondering how they are replacing this power plant...o
@@keithadams812 They're not....Energy Secretary Greta Thunburg won't allow it.
But they're bringing out the pressure washers! What else do you want?
@@ruthlessluder more pressure
Why didn't they just used jet fuel ?
at least it would have cut down on the dust
I expect there will be lawsuits. Windows blown out, trees knocked over and smokestack dust in every crevice imaginable. Power washing will be a drop in the bucket. The dust they power wash off buildings will still be all over the ground and people will be walking in it. Probably doesn't smell so great, either. It doesn't address the dust that will be on the trees, in people's cars, clothes, etc. That demolition was not done with anticipation of what could happen, and because they were smokestacks and not just buildings, perhaps it could have been done in pieces from the top somehow. It looked like they just blew it up from the bottom, probably the cheapest and worst way to go with something this tall.
Plus the town is right along the river !! So all that dust they hose off will end up in the river . And that river alot of towns draw their water from !
Huge amount of that dust was baked on the inside of the stack and the only way to release it was to bust it up through the demolition.
The insurance policy doesn't cover the dust damage. Whoever issued the permit should have read the fine print.
Source? What is “the” insurance policy?
@@rdspam Liability Insurance. It only covers the "accidental discharge of dust". This was anything but "accidental".
When the gas supply is interrupted to the new gas fired plant many will wish the coal fired plant was still in operation. You could store coal on site, how much gas can you keep on hand? The USA can't save the planet.
It's good that the demo company is stepping up
Failures in demolition happen all the time
It was a curse of getting rid of a coal fired power plant. Should have left it alone. Even China is allowed to have coal fired power plants all over the place over there.
The percentage of this is very low even with the best laid plans. There's always a risk of something like this to happen on any type of demolition. The companies were doing what they should as professionals. I wouldn't let a situation like this tarnish anyone's reputation.
its America land of the giant weak herd, the news lady told them to hate the company so the sheep hate it like good sheep are supposed to do.
oops, that's an expensive one, dust in lungs can trigger anything
Its more than dust, it contains silica which NEVER leaves your lungs
But they're there with the pressure washer
They will pay for a broken window but they won't give a cent for medical bills.
* 100% ACCURATE *
@@aaa7189 it probably has asbestosis if its old and got hot.
750 feet tall? Wow That is more than twice the height of Statue of Liberty.
you know why? cause it was made in France, we make shit BIG here.
@@larsfinlay7325 Probably also the shipping challenges at the time of creation.
The taller the stack the nastier the stuff coming out of it. It was built in the "Not in My Backyard" days.
@@larsfinlay7325 that was in Pennsylvania, USA. France didn't make that
@@larsfinlay7325 the statue yes, the tower no.
I guess wetting the ground ahead of time was not even thought of. Diversty is their strength
I'm no demolition expert, but even I know that the air blast coming out a fallen stack can be intense. Surely they didn't overlook this. 🙄
Obviously they did. Lowest bidder? (Memo: never ever hire Larry's Towing for a demo job again.)
More like it was planned to fail. Lets go Brandon and his entire idiocracy administration
It was supposed to break at the base and collapse in, instead it was built tough, held then toppled over.
@@jojoavila2217 You really think that President Biden would want this kind of a failure? Take the cotton out of your ears, turn OFF Faux news & Newsmax, take your head OUT of your backside, & rejoin the REAL anti-fascist, anti-neonazi world!
@@almostontimehero5415 That's not usually how these things work. Towers like that are tapered and designed to be strong against lateral forces, as in wind loads or falling, and have design parameters to keep them from collapsing under their own weight. There is no way you could blast a tower like that and have it "collapse in" as there is no space within the structure for the debris to collapse into.. Google any videos of tower demolition - brick, metal, water or radio towers and they're all brought down by toppling. Large concrete cooling towers can be made to "implode", but they start the charges from the top down.
One benefit of a one time implosion is there is only 1 cleanup. In more traditional building demolition, a lot more dust is created over a much longer time period. It can last weeks or even months. Removal of dust created by implosion started 15 minutes after the blast. Sometimes things go wrong. Whenever a 500 foot tall structure is bought down, much planning and safety concerns are addressed up front. Even then, no one expected the air pressure inside chimney to cause so much chaos.
That's not true. With conventional demolition the dust can be treated at the source.
@@jimnalgrin3515 Thanks for comment. Dust control is important. It's done continually in conventional.
@@mattltech Thanks for comment. We all love watching implosions. Most go off without any hiccups. This one had some drama at end.
You haven't watched many videos showing how chimney's are felled WITHOUT needing to blast and it doesn't take weeks or months. Maybe a few more hours but then I don't know how many hours they spent packing in the blasting material either.
I believe the engineers knew there would be a blast of air but ignored it. So where was all the air inside the chimney supposed to go when it flattened?
The area should of been dosed with water 💦 before hand, to keeping the dust minimal, whenever demolition is taking place, water mist is used to keep dust down!! They were very negligent on there part!!!!
says the guy that has no fuqing clue at all what he is talking about.
Unfortunately most of the dust - and it is really nasty dust - is a combination of buildup inside the chimney and concrete dust created as it is crushed against the ground. In other words, the dust was a solid mass right up until it wasn't. The only way to get really good dust control is to do the demolition in a absolute downpour, and demolitions like this need a precise schedule with weeks of lead time.
Sounds like a botched demo in my town about six or so years ago; no one died but flying debris injured several spectators, including one man losing his leg.
0:17 You can see the powerlines arcing out on the right hand side of the tree lined road that the dust plume blasts across. Oops.
The chimney at the Detroit incinerator plant is coming down Sunday June 11. FYI
This happened when they blew up the smokestack in St. Paul MN. The dust cloud hit the crowd. I breathed in a bunch of concrete dust and broke one of my teeth!
Thus demo charges on the twins. Imagine if that happened in NY, with all that asbestos...
They should have got George Bush you know Mr 911
I worked there from 2013 until I retired in 2021. Here's what went wrong...
Contrary to what the activists said, the old stack was physically isolated from the plant and sealed. There was a small drain valve at the bottom of the stack liner (a steel enclosure that ran the length of the stack) and when I opened it nothing came out after 14 years. The stack had a welded steel cap, visible on satellite view.
This created a huge, empty Pringles can. When it fell over the "can" collapsed and the resulting pressure wave blew the cap off the end, resulting in the damage.
The new stack at Cheswick and the stack at Elrama didn't do that because the top was open.
They should have hired the guys that did building 7
❤😂My sentiment Exactly!😂
That happened in Chicago a few years ago and it was called racist.
Excellent footage
You can tell the footage is not from News Center Maine.
Guy: “you ever clean up drywall dust..?”
Girl: “😒”
The guy is not wrong though.
I've swept three times, vacuumed twice, and mopped over and over... and STILL found some drywall dust in places I thought I cleaned.
@@MonkeyJedi99: You so have my sympathy, MJ99… That sounds downright infuriating! (I really hope you are MASKED for lung-protection!) Are you one of the neighborhood victims of this botched demolition? If so, you ought to join or start a Class Action Lawsuit against the company…Whatever happens, Best of Luck to you!
@@nanwilder2853 Oh, the mess was us doing renovations on our mother's house before selling it.
We masked and goggled during the demo phase, and ran fan blowing out of the windows in each room we were working on.
So we decommission power plants are they replacing it with anything.. usage is going up
Isnt this why you are meant to spray the ground with water during demolitions in dusty environments?
As well as spraying the demolition site as it comes down.
Something completely absent here.
The coal dust came from inside the stack.
They definitely should have done that. Most of that dust was from the ground. They also could have put some shipping containers just behind the landing zone to redirect the blast of air and the dust within it. Weird that in 2023 they couldn’t see that coming.
I know this is arm chair quarterbacking, but I would have dropped the tall tower with delayed charges, in thirds or quarters. Set the first charge a third from the top, the second charge 5 sec later two thirds up, and the last charge 5 seconds after that. That way the sections don’t all land at once and when they do land, it’s closer to the base; not all stretched out.
They said in this video that the tall one was not supposed to fall at all. Only the first smokestack was supposed to come down. So imagine if that tall one had fallen a different direction.
@@equestrianrosieThey don't know what they're talking about. It was definitely supposed to come down, but it was supposed to crumble on its way down. Pretty sad local journalism has gotten to the point where they just share stories from across the country, and can't the get basic details right.
they shouldve just flown an airliner into it. wouldve come down better
🤣
@karlwithak. tell the 9/11 commission
Not really a joking matter. Coal dust like that is very toxic and gets so deep into every crevice that total clean up is really impossible. The company will do what it must until it is bankrupt but that was a mess.
My grandfather grew up in England surrounded by coal dust. He lived to be 92.
No lAugHing maTTer 🤡
Now imagine how much dust came from that pipe during operation.
Once Dust such as this enters the lungs, it's not that there's a simple way to remove it. The Alveoli is where Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide are Exchanged during Respiration. "The alveoli are just one cell in thickness, allowing the gas exchange of respiration to occur rapidly." So, Dust is rather hazardous in itself, and more so if the Dust has properties to it that may be carcinogenic or otherwise Toxic. I don't know if Residents were exposed because the Demolition did not go as planned, but people that were exposed should be entitled to Health Monitoring for a specific period of time to be sure they weren't negatively impacted. And the settled dust, once disturbed again, will again be a health issue.
Dust, disturbed by this event, was potentially flammable in such concentrations (a Sugar Processing Plant in the U.S. experienced a huge explosion from ignited Sugar Dust, killing multiple employees). The results may have been especially horrific if the Dust Cloud was possible to ignite.
The Company is Accepting Responsibilities, that's reassuring, but saying they are accepting responsibilities, and actually accepting responsibilities, are two different things, the work needing done involves Repairing or Replacing Damaged or Destroyed Electronic Items, Cleaning, Repairing Windows, Decontaminating homes who's windows were broken, Decontaminating homes that had windows open because they were not notified of the need to close the windows since the Demolition did not go as planned, Decontaminating Vehicles, and actually I would think, providing Free Health Screening and Care for people harmed by exposure to the Dust. Domestic Animals in the affected area should likewise be provided Screening and Care.
@@falsemcnuggethope Although a Good Point, the Dust was Discharged in a Less Concentrated form well above the immediate neighborhood, that's why the Stacks are built so tall. More objectionable to me is the Exhaust Gas from private planes owned by people pushing climate change. If they want us to Teleconference to Reduce Pollution, why must they get together perhaps multiple times a year and waste fuel and create pollution to talk about people wasting fuel and creating pollution?
Wonder how many windmills or solar panels it will take to replace the electricity that one power plant generated?
We need to get all those toxic chemicals together to build those windmills, solar panels and batteries
The plant had a plate value of 637 MW. That would equal 128 pieces of 5 MW turbines. Obviously it will have quite a bit later footprint than the plant, but it evens out somewhat once you take into account the coal mines and the logistics that the operation requires.
Should of asked the CIA to do it ...they have had plenty of practice
Nothing worse than a group of clueless TV news anchors pontificating on subjects they have no earthly knowledge about.
I preferred the video of Joe going down but don't want to see the video of Kamala going down.
another tRUMPubliKKKlan ORC TROLL
"a power surge which damaged electronics in the area..."
Yikes! "Hey mom my laptop quit working..."
Unfortunately this could cause lung disease. Which means that entire area needs to be a evaluated
Lung disease
..call Binder and Binder.
All that cancer dust is now in their gardens, homes, playgrounds etc……
Tsk-Tsk…..
Don’t worry - I’m sure every “scheister” lawyer within 100-miles is already handing flyers out in the neighborhood…….🙄
From a one time exposure? Ah yes, victim mentality. Call your lawyer.
So true. That was likely a coal fire utility so the inside of that stack was LOADED with highly toxic heavy metal contamination.
Everyone will soon regret demolishing coal fired power plants.
Only after they're in the dark.
I am confused, do Americans not know that you need to damp the site down before and during demolition in dry weather? It is June and dusty enough in England. Contractors have to do it by law here. Pressure washers are no use they should have had tractor sprayers out first. Even knocking down a garden wall is dusty. I can't even use a leaf blower at this time of year without damping down first. The river is next door.
Do you wankers over there not understand that you should, at a minimum, watch and listen to enough of a story to have a basic grasp of the facts before commenting and showing the world what an ill informed twit you are?
Um, I'm no demolition expert, but I would've designed it so that the stacks imploded straight downwards rather than felling them axed-tree-style
If you watched the video, and listened, they said it didnt go to plan, it was supposed to implode first then fall over slightly, not just tip the whole thing over. just like the first one.
@@xFourTwenty117 Yes, and what is not reported is that it could only mean some of the explosive charges did not go off. They got live explosives lying with the debris.
@@badweetabix Modern explosives aren't easy to set off accidentally, so I don't think that's much of a problem
Wow how sad for those living around in the area
They are all going to be dead in 7 years. That's how long it takes the cancer to manifest.
Yeah. I live a town away. Lol. I was at work at the time but it's a mess.
The things the Government is doing in those areas makes me wonder if it's all for the good of the citizens ?!!
(PROFIT OVER PEOPLE ?!!)
Who said it was the Gubment?
Fuck joke Biden
💩4🧠s
They owned their mistake and are making amends?
I'd hire them any day.
Sad. Once a thriving nation with an industrial base. How the mighty have fallen.
“ was the tall one supposed to fall over”.
“ no!” Was the wrong answer &
“ building demolition “
Wrong title, this event is a
“Chimney implosion”
it actually makes it seem like they built a HELL of a sturdy smokestack, the fact that it didn't even crumble before falling over XD
Correction:
Everything went as planned, just a serious lack of foresight, yep!
Or was it intentional? 🤔
Anyway,
Whoopsie daisy! 🤠👍
From my Canadian perspective, i am amazed that there was no comparison to the twin towers.
me be like: 🤭
Just fly a plane into it. It'll come down straight as an arrow.
OK 🤡
Why do they have three people presenting the news? One is enough.
Ah yes trained professionals at work. They went to school and everything.
And you would do it better HOW????
Must have been a breakdown in the charges.
You can see the first tower collapsed properly for about the first 3rd of the way, then the charges failed.
This sort of thing isn't extremely uncommon in demo jobs.
They're supposed to go down like the towers did. Straight down in on themselves. The hallmark of a correctly done implosion demolition
Thats why i only hire unlicensed criminals for all my construction needs
Yes they all graduated from the " Granada Correspondents School of Engineering " some even graduated with straight " C " averages , they then all did their internships in Calcutta India , now they are all here to bring down the house .
This happened in Chicagoland not to long ago and they had the same issues...especially the dust. You'd think that demolition companies would learn that years of soot in those stacks builds-up and maybe part of the process should be to clean them out before demolition...more cost, yes, but what is cheaper...cleaning them or dealing with the lawsuits?
It's not just soot, it's mostly shattered cement and crushed bricks.
I thought most of the dust was from the ground beneath the structure being a kind of sooty landfill area... at least, it seems to start before the tower is fully fallen, suggesting the blast wave picking up the earth from bellow.
is this incorrect?
Probably loaded with banned hazardous chemicals
Fred Dibnah would be appalled
Crazy how professional demo experts cant drop a building easily but a few guys in planes hit 2 towers and drop 3 buildings perfectly in on themselves...
Tell us about the flat earth next, please!
@@radiocameron Analyst of the Conspirators.....Get with the damn program..Show me a picture of Michelle Obama with the girls as babies..I'll be here waiting.
@@radiocameron can’t do that, because it isn’t.
@@radiocameron the earth isn't flat. Don't steer the subject away from a valid point...
I still find it hard to beLIEve it today being that steel burns and melts at a higher temperature then jet fuel.
However the cheap tender boxes NY called buildings dis have restruants and science labs but I still think it had to be blown up by some bombs still placed inside. I do t know for sure but bomb sniffing dogs were called off duty a week before 9-11.
Toooooooo much loose change.
Many people don't know about the dumptruck loaded with gold!
Left behind like ducking die hard 😆🤣😆🤣👍
Should always have big pumps spraying water on a demo so you don't get that mutch dust
Bro my mans on the right is higher than Snoop.🥴💨
Gives new meaning to the Kansas song.."Dust in the Wind"
I wonder if wetting down the coal yard would have prevented a lot of the dust at least? Good on the company!
Not in this case. That debris came from inside the stack and was blown out by impact with the ground.
They should have imploded them at the same time. The second stack was falling tilted before the charges went off. Why blow them separate? This is something the demolition explosive experts should chime in on because the first tower's collapse could very well make the other one tilt over, so blow both.
Bummer for the residents! But pretty funny and astute comment from that anchor about the pressure washer combined with broken windows not being the best combination. 😂
It was all expected if they had powerwashers going within 15mins. Except maybe the power outage.
How exactly did this cause a power surge?
Maybe they should have used wetting and binding agents on the coal yard before the demolition. A lot of water and fly ash sprayed on the surface of the coal yard would have prevented this.
No. 🤦🏻♂️
@@Studio23Media yes. It would prevent the dust cloud.
This kind of large demolition only happens rarely. Maybe they should be required to wait until it's raining so the dust doesn’t spread so much.
My first thought was why didn't they have the fire dept there to spray down the field first.
@@ChrisBeardsley Lol, that wouldn't make any difference. Most of that dust is from INSIDE the stack and its being blown out by impact with the ground so it is almost like a gun firing. Here is another example, and this one isn't even that high, AND it is being watered down. Still the inside dust from the stack will shoot out at impact. th-cam.com/video/UBH-JhLiTO4/w-d-xo.html
Coal field , the Coal dust still would have been a problem , but yes a much less of a problem , but if they got their Fischer price detonator damp it may not have worked . The boss did get a new Tonka Truck for his birthday .
Well, they didn't wait for rain on 9/11, did they?
@@manoman0 we can add that to the list of their crimes. So inconsiderate.
I wonder if there was any asbestos amongst all that dust?
I wonder if there wasn't
how could there not be? going to be a rough time for folks around there.
"Okay. First of all that's not our fault because some variables cannot be predicted. Secondly, we are just as upset as the homeowners."
You guys didn't hit anything. Looked good to me
@@eligebrown8998 Considering one of the chimney's went sideways I'd say you're wrong.
@@secondchance6603 are you an engineer or graduate high school yet? Or better yet have you been out of the house longer then a couple years to experience anything note worthy? Don't tell me I'm wrong unless you have first hand knowledge cause most of yall on you Tube have not seen half the shit I have.
@@eligebrown8998 "Don't tell me I'm wrong unless you have first hand knowledge cause most of yall on you Tube have not seen half the shit I have."
Not only are you wrong you're full of the stuff you claim to have seen half of... shit.
they're upset because they're going to get sued by those homeowners.
1:01 Oof look at the building w/two windows right in front of the camera; the window on the right side is wide open & ready to receive that plume of awfulness 🤢💀
I can only imagine what is in the toxic junk in that chimney soot.
Should have asked Bush for advice
A few water trucks passing thru beforehand could have helped reduce the dust plume.
I took a course in environmental monitoring. To meet environmental regulations which are measured within a radius of a plant (say 60 miles radius), they build very tall smokestacks so that the upper wind blows the pollution elsewhere and out of the testing zone. It was very disheartening to learn.
@@doublewhopper67 No, they're saying the pollution is still being created, it's just blowing to the next town over and affecting all of them; with no reprisals from the EPA since it's not effecting anyone within 60 miles of the structure. If you're at mile 65 with your neighborhood, and 20 years later you have cancer; you're fucked.
"Hey Mr. George how much you pay for the new guy" "20bucks nooooo to much money"
How about cut the demolition company a little slack. The giant stack still fell within the coal yard, no one was hurt and they showed up in 15 minutes to pressure wash the exterior of homes, streets, vehicles. Then they learned a lot more went wrong than originally predicted. You don't show up in 15 minutes to pressure wash on a whim, it was built in as a precaution. I'll bet they immediately notified the utilities and were just as professional after the implosion as they were before. So negative, are you people able to see the good? They weren't prepared for an air pressure surge of 750' falling over, it was probably going to collapse the bottom 1/3 like the other one. It would've been better if they had soaked with water the inside of the big tower for dust mitigation prior to the implosion.
that yard and inside of each stack should have been sprayed before demo!!
This is actually a very dangerous situation for the next few days because since the demolition did not go as plan (not all the charges went off) there are live explosives mixed with the debris.
Modern explosives aren't easy to set off accidentally, so I don't think that's much of a problem
@@pauldzim Not true.
spraying water all over them will neutralize and disintegrate any left over explosives rendering them safe..
@@jayhope615 No it won't. Dynamite is waterproof.
Next few years. That dust doesn't go away. It just keeps blowing around and around. To make things worse they want to implode the Boilerhouse and cover the respirable silica with a layer of heavy metals, (lead) and all the asbestos they can't get to.
At least the company behind this is taking responsibility in some degree though laughable. Feel bad for the residents in the area
Dude on the right is higher than I am LMAO
Hello to John & Sandy . hope you two are well . Ray
See how the smaller one came down? It dropped a bit and then toppled. The big one was supposed to do the same, but it failed to drop before toppling. That makes a huge difference in A) how much of an air blast comes out of the stack when it hits the ground, and B) how close to the edge of the property the top of the stack end up landing.
my question would be, why they acted so differently... did some of the explosives' not go off?
it should be more than the base exploding to make a tower topple inwards....
@@stanislavkostarnov2157 The taller stack had additional reinforcement that was somehow missed and therefore not taken into account when planning the demolition.
@@JonMartinYXD genius... total Genius
all I am going to say...
What did people think would happen?
The news anchors are criticizing a lot but you can tell they have no clue...
"I am glad noone was standind near it" says the news mouthpiece that never worked a day in his life.
They didn't wet it down beforehand?
The anchor sounds like he's take a few chimneys up the Hershey highway.
😆😂
as long as the company makes those who were negatively impacted whole again- its all good to go. no injuries is a good thing.
You mean no IMMEDIATE injuries!