Excitement!

[featherynscale]

There seems to be something really large on fire a little bit south of here. It must be just on the north side of the river. The Weasel says it's a chemical plant, but I'm a little uncertain about how he knows that, and he is, after all, a Weasel. There's a ginormous column of blue smoke in the air, filling most of what one can see from the front door of my office. Of course, everyone ran out the door to look at it. So I'm sure we're all breathing in some sort of toxic, or at the very least, mutagenic chemical. So that's fun. I'll let you know if I turn into anything weird. Unless, you know, I turn into something weird that can't type. Then you're S.O.L.

In other news, Vickipedia! That cracks me up, which should tell you something about the absolute wretchedness of my sense of humor.

Comments

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

I don't think this is a registered site:

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/10955838/detail.html

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

There seems to be something really large on fire a little bit south of here.

Ask me about details tomorrow! :-)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh boy. Actually, eff that for the moment. Should we all flee the scene?

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

Only if you are within a one mile radius.

But since it is 9:00, I can only assume you are at capriciouslass's and no where near there anymore...

[akaashben.livejournal.com]

Apparently, it is 6 30,000 gallon tanker cars of flammable liquid (unidentified at this time) in the ChemCentral plant yard that are burning. Courtesy of the KC Fire Marshall on the NBC news.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Oh. Joy. :/
So I'm thinking they're not going to have that out anytime soon.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

They are guessing about 72 hours...

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Live video feed here:
http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=2306955&version=10&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

Chemical plant on fire ... about the worst possible situation for a firefighter, barring buildings populated with invalids.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, that's on the south side of the river, and all of my agency's homes populated with invalids are on the north side. :/

[lady-bronwyn.livejournal.com]

*nods* The fire is hideous; my school is literally across the river...but only 1 square mile of downtown on the OTHER side of the river is being evacuated. The lights blinked on and off here for a minute or so when the chemical plant exploded.

[chainwoman.livejournal.com]

They blinked where I work too and that's all the way in Overland Park.

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was getting a little tired of my UPS going *click*click* this afternoon everytime the power blipped (plaza location) ... but I guess that is better than not having a UPS at all.

[orcjohn.livejournal.com]

It appears to be mineral oil in the tankers according to the news I just heard.