No Injuries Reported in Explosion at Woods Cross Refinery - KSTU

Hasn't this happened before? They need to be shut down.

Heard it and felt it clear up in Layton! Rattled the windows!

It happens a lot!
Do a search for Silver Eagle Explosion ...

Maybe you should know what has happened before you comment or make judgement.

Rach wrote:

Hasn't this happened before? They need to be shut down.

All the picture that are being shown of the refinery explosion are of Holly Oil Refinery.
The smoke stacks and fires are coming from Holly.

i heard the boom or rumbling sound and felt my house move, around 9:15. I thought it was a small earthquake, so i call my husband on base if he knew anything..., i dont know how far i am from the explosion, 1223 N 350 E Layton UT, 84041.

Thanks for bringing us the views of Charles. Technical experts on signals and sirens are hard to come by. You are obviously fortunate to have one living nearby.

This explosion took place less than 1 mile from my new places of employment the Best Western CottonTree Inn in North Salt Lake and the Hampton Inn Salt Lake City North. I checked in with both properties and luckily there was no major damage. Apparently there were at least four homes that are damaged.

we felt and heard it in Syracuse!

XXX wrote:

Maybe you should know what has happened before you comment or make judgement.
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Maybe you should too.

http://www.ksl.com/...
Wood said, "This is the fifth time it's blown up in the six years I've been here. I knew it was there when I moved in, and I was fine with it until it started blowing up."

How long has the refinery been there? how long have the residents been there? exactly. They knew what they were moving in next to. Not that it snuck up and surprised them. Idiots.

Kaycie wrote:

How long has the refinery been there? how long have the residents been there? exactly. They knew what they were moving in next to. Not that it snuck up and surprised them. Idiots.

Refineries are a dangerous business and by their very nature, they sometimes have fires and/or explosions. People who work in the facilities know this and mentally adapt to the danger. People who build homes and try to raise families in the vicinity of a Refinery are "nuts". All I can say is the lots must have been too cheap to pass up. Refineries literally spend $millions each year trying to make their Reinery as safe as they can possibly be. Besides the personnel protection these Safety programs/actions provide, they reduce the amount of expenditures that must be made to damaged equipment which runs much more that the Safety programs they have.