Fuel Storage Plants

On Tuesday night as I watched the news on
channel 4 (the only one we can get) we saw
an interruption of the national news.

It seems that a fuel storage plant had caught
fire. The black smoke reach for the sky at about
7 story block building size and still growing...
There were flames from time to time.

It took many hours of fighting it. They brought in
the Air Force or the airport crash fighting team.
Which seem to do what the 6 fire trucks could
not. Mainly because the Crash fighting team
had a foam throwing truck. Which is far better
than water.

Long and short of it, is the fact that the
surrounding homes and the river nearby could
and probably are affected by it. The air was thick.
People were warn to stay in their houses or go
to another area. It still kicked up flames from time
to time the next day as they tried to clean it up.
They suspect arson.

Then on the national news on Wednesday we watched
another fuel storage plant go up in flames. Far more
flames than the Spokane one. The people were warn
to say away and to stay in their house or vacate the
area. That the air was full of smoke and etc. There
were also projectiles from it. This one is in Dallas, Texas.

Makes one wonder. One thing is, should these plants be
in residential areas.. Which my best guess they weren't
when the plants were put there. Both look like they had
been there quite some time. So to me the question should
be... should they let people build homes with in a mile of
them.

Second, maybe it is the news that makes one paranoid
with the warnings of more trouble from abroad... but two
fuel plants, in residential area...with in 12 hours or less. In
two different states... is this just by chance? or a plan to
test the waters of the alertness of our fire dept. by foreign
terrorist.