No word as to the cause of the explosion, apparently the fire alarm had already alerted the FD a few minutes prior. Luckily the explosion had happened before they arrived, I guess. The company made inks and dyes for plastic bags, used alot of Toluene. Oh how lovely that stuff is!
Its been the talk of the town, everywhere you go people were talking about the sound of a vehicle crashing into their house. People were outside checking their neighborhoods at 3AM. Shannons aunt , who lives two miles away from us had small things blown off of shelves from the blast. (I guess its a good thing we have Ms. Stompyfeet living above us, so all of our stuff is well anchored)
Shannons father had stopped into the Danversport Bakery weekday mornings for the past 10 years for a coffee. The guys were in there working on around 400 pies for thanksgiving orders. The second floor was blown apart. The 4 of them crawled out and Luis, the owner, needed a few stitches.
We havent been over there too see it in person, the road closures begin on the next street over from us. Just before stopping in to Shannons brothers place, which is .5 Mi. from here we stopped at a park across the river from Water St. and you can see the back of the fourth row of houses from the blast site, and the entire length of that street is boarded up.
http://cbs4boston.com/topstories/local_story_326095830.html
The funny things you learn by looking at google earth:
The pictures in our area have been updated recently, a few weeks ago I placemarked a bunch of local warbirds on mine. I just looked at one and it is gone, I checked the next and it is gone, and the one I went looking for originally is now there. The best part is I moved over to the view of our parking lot at the apartment and there is a bright turquoise car parked across the way. It wasnt there before, and it has been in the hangar at work since last November. So they update with a little delay.
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