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originally posted by: jefwane
I've seen it said that there was pvc pipe orv electrical conduit stored under that bridge. I don't know how in the hell you'd ignite either, especially the pvc. I could see the conduit generating the heat necessary to weaken steel and concrete, but am at a loss for how someone could get it ignited in the amount necessary to get it all burning especially accidentally. I really can't envision that amount of conduit being stored in an unsecured location. There is a huge problem with copper theft in the state of Georgia. If it was electrical conduit, the only accidental ignition i could see is maybe some type of accident with something like an oxy- acetaline cutting torch. Likec someone using the torch to cut copper into moveable chunks igniting their tank and starting a fire hot enough to get the conduit burning.
Things just ain't making much sense with this right now.
Depends on how hot the chair was burning and if that was sufficient to initiate combustion in the HDPE pipes. A hydrocarbon accelerant would not necessarily have to be used. Not ruling it out that they didn't set the blaze with an accelerant, just saying it might hot have been needed.
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Staroth
The only way a chair on fire atop a shopping cart started this is if someone were spraying gasoline over the conduit at the same time. It's obvious to me that there was something in those drums that nobody wants to talk about.
TheRedneck
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: D8Tee
The heat produced from a burning chair might be sufficient to start that much HDPE to smoldering. There's no way it could have started combustion at that scale, even if burning as intensely as possible. A very effective accelerant had to be used, and the intermittent flames I saw looked like highly flammable hydrocarbons.
That does not mean it was gasoline per se, but it had to be almost explosive.
TheRedneck
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Vasa Croe
The flame in that last picture is NOT HDPE burning. That is some sort of hydrocarbon or accelerant. The flames are far too high, and there's nowhere near enough smoke.
TheRedneck
originally posted by: [post=22089122]Vasa
What gets me about the last pic is those guys were on scene before it was raging, so why isn't the Fire department there and how did it spread so fast? I mean it appears they could have used something to push whatever is burning out of the reach of the stockpile of flammable....
originally posted by: TheRedneck
a reply to: Vasa Croe
The flame in that last picture is NOT HDPE burning. That is some sort of hydrocarbon or accelerant. The flames are far too high, and there's nowhere near enough smoke.
TheRedneck
I-85 in Atlanta will reopen in time for Monday’s morning rush hour commute and probably sooner. The northbound lanes probably will be open sometime Saturday and the southbound lanes sometime Sunday, Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner Russell McMurry said at a press conference Wednesday. That puts the bridge’s reopening at least a full month ahead of the original June 15 deadline. "This is a day of celebration,” Gov. Nathan Deal said at the press conference, adding: “It demonstrates the can-do attitude Georgia has." I
Contractor C.W. Matthews has been working round the clock since then and could earn up to $3.1 million in incentives for finishing early. GDOT has said the project will cost up to $16.6 million, including incentives. The construction process was sped up by the fact that there was only one full day lost due to rain, McMurry said. Though the bridge may have stripes and look ready now, there are still certain things that have to be done, McMurry said. Workers must install expansion joints between beams, complete the pouring of concrete side barriers, do electrical work in the median for street lights, clean up construction debris and finally restripe the roadways, he said.