Major "Oops" - Demo'd Smokestack Falls The Wrong Way
What in the hell were they thinking having the little girl on site!! Up here no kid under the age of 16 is allowed on a const site let alone demolition!! F'n assclowns....the youngest one is the smartest one of the bunch, she starts to run while everyone else starts pi$$'n their pants
Thats what I wondered, and Google helps.....
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/n...-tower-demo-fails-falls-wrong-way-999816.html
Ohio Edison tower blasted, falls wrong way
The former Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant's 275-foot tower in Springfield came down on Wed., Nov. 10, but the blast knocked it the wrong direction. The tower was supposed to fall to the northeast, but ended up falling to the south knocking down several nearby powerlines.
No one was injured from the tower falling the wrong way.
Children were present because the company is a family-run outfit that travels the country doing this work.
The company was featured in a six-part TLC Network series called The Imploders.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010...=Feed:+CBSNewsGamecore+(GameCore:+CBSnews.com)
AP) A 275-foot smokestack being demolished at an old power plant toppled in the wrong direction and sent spectators scrambling Wednesday before knocking down two 12,000-volt power lines and crashing onto a building housing backup generators, officials said.
No injuries were reported after the tower at the unused 83-year-old Mad River Power Plant teetered and then fell in a southeast direction instead of east, as originally planned seconds after explosives were detonated.
The falling tower brought down the power lines and sent spectators scrambling to avoid the sparking lines.
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"It just started leaning the other way and I thought, 'Holy cow' ... It was terrifying for a little bit," Springfield Township Fire Chief John Roeder told the Springfield News-Sun.
Officials estimated that about 4,000 customers in the Springfield area, about 25 miles northeast of Dayton, lost power because of the downed lines.
Lisa Kelly, the president and owner of Idaho-based Advanced Explosives Demolition Inc., which handled the demolition, told the News-Sun that the explosives detonated correctly, but an undetected crack on the south side of the tower pulled it in a different direction.
"Nobody's happy with things that go wrong in life, and sometimes it's out of our hands and beyond anybody's prediction. ... We're all extremely thankful no one was injured," Kelly told The Columbus Dispatch.
Officials say the debris landed on the FirstEnergy property.
"We had it all planned out. Everything was scoped out ... it caught everybody by surprise," Tim Suter, FirstEnergy's manager of external affairs, told the News-Sun. "Everybody was kind of excited, looking for cover."
