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This results in a volatile situation, and if the ignition occurs at the ideal mixture, the result can be a violent smoke gas explosion. This is referred to as smoke explosion or fire gas ignition depending on the severity of the combustion process. A hot rich flashover occurs when the hot smoke with flammable gas ratio above the upper limit of ...
A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped flammagenitus cloud of debris, smoke, and usually condensed water vapour resulting from a large explosion. The effect is most commonly associated with a nuclear explosion, but any sufficiently energetic detonation or deflagration will produce a similar effect.
A backdraft (North American English), backdraught (British English) [1] or smoke explosion is the abrupt burning of superheated gases in a fire caused when oxygen rapidly enters a hot, oxygen-depleted environment; for example, when a window or door to an enclosed space is opened or broken. Backdrafts are typically seen as a blast of smoke and ...
Clouds of smoke were seen billowing into the sky following an explosion at a metals plant in Ohio. At least one person was killed and 13 others injured in the incident, which sent molten metal and ...
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The moment of the explosion was captured during an interview with Faissal Al Assil, head of the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy, [47] by Moroccan journalist Maryam Toumi, who sustained minor injuries, from the BBC Arabic office in Beirut, which was damaged. Red smoke over Lebanon on the evening of the explosion. Video from eyewitness ...
The fire chief of the City of Henderson, who was leaving the main fire station about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of the PEPCON facility, spotted the huge smoke column and immediately ordered his units to the scene. As he approached the plant, he could see a massive white and orange fireball about 100 ft (30 m) in diameter and dozens of people ...
Since Tuesday, multiple wildfires in Southern California have burned through at least 39,000 acres — an area nearly the size of Brooklyn — and firefighters have barely made a dent.