Tacoma Explosion

An explosion at a foundry in Tacoma was burning for several hours while firefighters were working to cool additional tanks to keep them from blowing up. The blast occurred at the Atlas Foundry at 3 p.m., and firefighters arrived shortly after to find that a tanker truck that was delivering propane had exploded. A propane tank on-site then caught fire, according to Dan Crotty, assistant fire chief at the Tacoma Fire Department. According to The Associated Press, the driver of the truck was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where spokeswoman Susan Gregg-Hanson said he was in critical condition tonight. Three others, all Atlas employees, were taken to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma. A nursing supervisor said one suffered facial burns and was in stable condition, while the other two suffered leg and knee injuries and would likely be discharged tonight. Witnesses miles away felt the explosions and said they saw flames shoot up as high as 1,000 feet in the air. A Tacoma Police officer, who happened to be nearby, said "it looked like the atom bomb, like the mushroom cloud.
→ João Pedro Schriefer ( GambleSchriefer ).

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[slaymaster999]

me and my dad were at target, and all of a sudden the ,lights flickered and the store shook, and when we got out we could see the smoke from the explosion.

[Misskylakandy]

@GambleSchriefer Ehhh XD i dont remember exactly where i was on the ramp, i just remember the whole thing like "omg!" haha XD

Yeah! it was crazy(:

[Misskylakandy]

I was on the ramp right next to it when it exploded!! :O Everyone was going all slow trying to watch it and we saw that it was gunna blow so we honked our horn to get everyone going faster then we just swerved between people and it blew!:O It was scary O_O kinda like a movie XD