Explosion outside London

[Cian]

I got an IM from someone I know in North London reporting visible distoritions on his PC monitors due to a shockwave about ten minutes ago, seems to have been a massive explosion in St. Albans:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1205711,00.html

Seems to have been a huge explosion, huge shockwaves.

 

[clapham_gull]

Oil depot - still burning away.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Looks pretty bad.

Quoted from the BBC website:

"Several other neighbours said they did see a plane go into the depot."

 

[dougdeep]

It's the one near Hemel Hempstead.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Terrorist reports of a low plane being heard first.

 

[dougdeep]

There could be millions of gallons of fuel on that site, that could burn for days.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

this will be far reaching and in my opinion is calculated attack

 

[Yorkie]

Police report of casualties according to tv news.

 

[Yorkie]

Terrorist reports of a low plane being heard first.

Confirmed as untrue by police. It is being treated as an accident.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Confirmed as untrue by police. It is being treated as an accident.

I do hope so ..............BT police said this is not terrorist outside our office at 10am on 7/7

 

[beorhthelm]

you know oil/petrol depot have been known to explode without the help of terrorists

 

[Half Time Pies]

I was woken up this morning at 6 by a strange rumbling noise. The flat shaked a bit so I thought that maybe it was the people above banging around or something, I can only assume now that it must have been the explosion.

I live in north London at least 10-15 miles away so it must have been seriuosly big.

 

[Yorkie]

Switch on BBC1 and watch/listen for yourselves to eyewitnesses.

 

[FalmerforAll!**]

Is this why MOTD was cancelled cos of news reports?

Terrible thing that has happened though.Hope no-one was killed

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Confirmed as untrue by police. It is being treated as an accident.

My initial instinct was that this was probably untrue. Why do people spout such utter crap?

 

[Timbo]

All these people are ringing up the news channels saying they heard a low plane overhead just before the explosion. YOU LIVE 5 MILES FROM LUTON AIRPORT YOU FUCKWITS!
Also why cancel MOTD. They could have at least moved it to another channel.

 

[Muzzman]

MATCH OF THE DAY - THIS MORNING AT 10am.. (according to BBC)

 

[Beach Hut]

This looks very bad but so far no fatalities so the oil depot can't have had many people working - thankfully.

When this type of horrendous disasters happen why do News people bang on about "please send us your photos etc".

I thought that was what news people were for ?

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

For people without a tv - its on the bbc live console on their website.

The fire looks terrible

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

When this type of horrendous disasters happen why do News people bang on about "please send us your photos etc".

I thought that was what news people were for ?

Speaking as a News Person... it's because it takes half an hour for a crew to leave central London, get to the scene, and start sending live pics back. In the mean time, there's half an hour of News 24 and Sky to fill, and it's not very interesting to talk about a big fire for half an hour while looking at a picture of a map.

But you're right... there's too much of it that goes on these days.