PROPANE FIRE
Zoning
• Residents say propane facility had no place near houses [ CBC.ca ]
• Plant OK’d under old law [ Toronto Sun ]
• • Gas blast causes bedlam in Toronto [ Globe and Mail ]
• Heads must roll over disaster [ Toronto Sun ]
Evacuation
• Thousands flee gas blasts [ Toronto Sun ]
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• • Massive propane explosion forces thousands from their homes [ National Post ]
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People
• ‘Maybe the world is going to end’ [ National Post ]
• ‘All you saw were flames coming’ [ Toronto Sun ]
• Propane blasts ‘sounded like warfare’ [ CBC.ca ]
• • ‘A propane tank went flying into the air and landed in a different spot’ [ National Post ]
Police & Firefighters
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• • Firefighter dies battling huge fire at propane depot [ CBC.ca ]
• Firefighter remembered as intelligent, helpful colleague [ Globe and Mail ]
Miscellaneous
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URBAN FOREST
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4 comments
‘Bedlam’ really isn’t used often enough in regular conversation.
Look, bad stuff like this happens every once and a while, and decisions about zoning, etc, need to be made when people have calmed down so cooler heads can prevail.
“Heads must roll over disaster” is the sort of over-the-top, heat-of-the-moment thinking that I’m suggesting should be avoided. The propane facility was probably too close to residents, but consider that something clearly went seriously wrong for this to happen (failure in safety checks, procedure, something).
I don’t think it would be good in the long run for us to force propane distributors into the middle of no-where with a massive buffer zone around them.
I agree the heads must roll is too heat-of-the-moment. First is to let the Ontario Fire Marshall complete their investigation, then decide how to fix it.
The ideal is not to move propane facilities far from people, in case they blow up, the ideal is to make sure they don’t blow up in the first place. Then people do not need to worry about living near one.
BTW the corner gas station is just as dangerous, especially when the tanks are being filled by those large gasoline tanker trucks.
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