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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Damn that was fast, and that guy ran back for what looked like his phone or something. I had no idea shit could go up that fast. Is this cause the aluminum or was something else accelerating the fire?

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    There's a hydraulic oil leak right in the upper middle of the frame, aerosolized oil spraying all over the ceiling and falling on hot equipment and igniting. It's like a grease fire on steroids.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's not oil, its molten aluminum judging from how bright and white the flame is and the fact that the machine is an aluminum bar extruder. People don't generally realize how insanely flammable aluminum can be when it is reduced to a fine enough powder. Powdered aluminum mixed with an oxidizer is what makes fire crackers go bang. It's also one of the two main ingredient in thermite.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Its not just aluminum either. Many powedered metals can do this too. And once it starts, theres no good way to extinguish it. You basically have to let it burn out.

    Im personalty familiar with the effects of titanium

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I was the one who reposted this first on reddit and it blew up. The clip was apparently leaked and my post actually got DMCA'd by the company who owns this plant after like 50k upvotes. Once on the internet, always on the internet lol

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I wonder at which point in that video that whole environment became lethal to any living being without protection. How close were those people to that moment? Any firefighters in here have any input?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No shit sherlock. Point's for describing the obvious and being ironic, negated by not actually understanding the context might be more then that.

    https://wonderfulengineering.com/watch-an-aluminum-factory-turn-into-a-burning-inferno-in-a-matter-of-seconds-after-fire-erupts/

    A large fire broke out in an aluminium plant in the city of Dos Hermanas, about 12 km from the centre of Seville, in southwestern Spain.

    “Catastrophic failure at an aluminium extrusion line. Looks like an overpressure event, and the oil itself (over a drop ceiling no less) open a portal to a demon dimension,”

    Jun 4, 2022

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Mine says failed to load media. Could be on my end but I figured I'd mention it just in case

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The fuck is that plant made of? Cardboard?

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