Muskogee, OK explosion last night may have been caused by bomb

[karlrschneider]

I've heard from several people who claim to know that the Yaffe Iron & Metal recycling center that blew up last night killing 2 people (I'll link to the original thread after I finish typing here) was accepting a lot of material from the McAlester, OK bomb-manufacturing plant (they are one of if not the largest munitions factories in the country) and believe that one or more bombs may have been in one of the truckloads of stuff they throw into the melting furnaces. This makes sense to me, because I can't imagine an oil-fired furnace could blow up with a force that we felt here 22 miles away. If this turns out to be true, it scares the shit outta me...how many OTHER bombs might have been "lost"?

edit: here's the link to the original LBN thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1105100

[NMDemDist2]

1. that makes more sense

considering your description of the shake you got last night

[karlrschneider]

2. There were reports of people hearing/feeling it from as far as 55 miles

today. :eyes:

[Pegleg Thd]

9. It shook the heck out of things here

we are just 10 blocks east of Yaffe's plant.:nuke:

[karlrschneider]

12. Woo...you must be near York & Chandler, sorta?

I heard a bunch of windows downtown were blown out...which isn't hard to believe 'cause it shook our house 5 miles NORTH of Wagoner at Snug Harbor! ...

[Pegleg Thd]

14. Yes , Karl.

We are 5 south of Chandler and 3 East of Spalding Park. No broken windows etc. here. The fire Captain's mother lives across the street and had 2 of her windows blow out. Neighbors both east and west of us lost a window each. :nuke: :scared:

[kc.ink]

3. ouchee . . . that's a biggy blast. But my question would be

why in God's name, would you take in scrap metal from a munitions factory??? and NOT inspect it???

[karlrschneider]

6. I don't know, but I -do- know the owner of the company personally,

I lived in Muskogee for 10 years. I've tried to call him a few times today but can't get in touch, which is understandable. They get dozens of truckloads of scrap in every day, and I imagine it would be logistically difficult if not impossible to closely inspect every chunk of metal. But of course this is just rumor & speculation for now, although I can't imagine any other explanation that would be logical.
Maybe the FBI can do some forensic work to determine what really happened...
:eyes:

[Nikepallas]

4. Not doubtin you but haven't heard anything on national news.

Still it is a very scary thing to hear.

[karlrschneider]

5. I didn't hear it on national news either, only 2 people killed but here's

a local link
http://www.kotv.com/main/home/main.asp

[Nikepallas]

7. I'm just surprise that it wouldn't even have a two second report.

If I remember correctly a town's near by Firework's company (one of the best know in the world) basically blew up I heard about it once on CNN I believe. Was a few years back of course when the News channels were not shadows of themselves like they are now.

Thanks for the link

[karlrschneider]

11. I think I remember that one, was in souther Ohio? Didn't it kill a bunch

of people? I remember looking up the town in my atlas at the time, seems like it was right on the Ohio river...unsure now though.

[Nikepallas]

13. Actually it was Western PA a small town about 20 minutes from

Ohio... New Castle is the name of the town.

I think it was one guard that died. Caused lights to go out and town shook a lot. mind you the factory is about 3 miles from the actual town (or something like that) but everyone felt it.

[LibinMo]

8. Here in Springfield Mo it still hasn't made the newscasts

unless I've missed it. Nothing in our morning paper, either.

[karlrschneider]

10. that's kind of surprising, you're not that far away...

but who knows how the media decides what to report these days? Welcome to DU anyway. :toast: :D

[Razorback_Democrat]

15. Visiting relatives in Colorado

Made it on Denver's TV (don't remember which one) Quick blurb

nothing about munitions though

just 2 killed in blast in Muskogee, OK

Was in Ft. Smith AR when it happened, didn't hear any blast there, but apparently they did as far as Vian!

Amazing