Explosions and fire at battery recycling plant in Trail, BC - TMTV News

[momthrone]

@simonnicholasbird - I've read water actually makes lithium fires much worse, but when a lot of these facilities are built, a sprinkler system is required. This type of fire requires a different treatment.

[docman789]

talk about a hazmat scene lol

[justincgs]

GOD that smoke must be TOXIC!

That incident I bet would deposit more lead than Cominco does in... a year !?! LOL

[mpwelk]

That's like 1000 years of battery recycling effort down the shitter

[randomvideowatcher]

The batteries were recycled into fire, smoke and battery parts.

[simonnicholasbird]

Does anyone know, was that plant sprinkler protected?

[oldskoolrocker1992]

my sister was right where it happend she filmed most of it

[Bullshitbuster1]

Chemical fires are awesome and horrible

[kevindop]

@Bullshitbuster1 we have some chemical fire to in holland by moerdijk

[randomvideowatcher]

Many batteries had a revolting end. They were terminal. I wonder if there will be charges related to the fire. Someone might be arrested for assault and battery and put in a dry cell. I zinc this fire was bad. I wonder what the plant looks like currently. Maybe the firemen will cell-abrate when the fire is out. I've heard about a hot cell at a nuclear plant but never at a battery plant. I wonder how many batteries come from the D. C. area.

[Thefruitfly2]

haha i was there

[SittingMooseShaman]

... actually... them batteries ARE being recycled. Ma Nature simply

follows a much different and less... um-mm, confined methodology

for decomposing some compounds into lesser, more elemental

products... Gotta admit... She does have flair.

[forficiaform]

i made some of those batteries the recycling plant was run by morons

[drumlar6]

well I guess those batterys did'nt get recycled LOL it just mad a big out burst if polutents and a cool show.

[vladokvk]

Cool fireworks ;)

[sparkie21]

Recycling batteries - good for the environment!

[jamezc63]

I haul semi loads of car batteries to KC Recycling..I didn't see a lot of laptop batteries, but the plastic and lead that went up in this fire surely posed a serious health risk to anyone within a large radius!

So much for trucking batteries to Trail!

[BlindAspie]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why it says "do not dispose in fire" on the battery package. One burning laptop battery is bad enough, just imagine thousands of them! I'd hate to be anywhere near that!

[tviswatchingu]

I took the video but I'm not from Trail. I was visiting family in Mont-Rose and we thought it was comming from the gun range across the river. It went on like this for over 2 hrs. I left when it started to rain (acid) on my head.

[kbartsoff4]

I drove by when the fire was just starting

[sipix246]

ha ha ha im from trail and this shyte's intense

[nickhesson]

holy crap! I was in Trail when this happened! How many of you are from Trail as well?

[jameymci]

i use to be my folks live above the plant

[jameymci]

holey!!! bigger than the last 2

[dayhomemama]

Woah! Thank goodness it didn't spread!

[trainguy91]

Dude thats where I work!!!!!!!

[coolman0893]

The explosion released lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and the air smelled like sulphur dioxide. So bad.

[zzblairzz]

if you know me or anything post it

[zzblairzz]

ya i could see it, blair sherwood.

[420AshleyMarie420]

holy shit.. i was in Fruitvale when that happend..

[wadum580]

that is soo cool