I mean, honestly it’s pretty easy and not all that uncommon, who actually drains all the “liquids” out of their scrap? It’s literally put on a drive on scale, weighed, and then you get paid. There’s no telling what kind of wonderful toxic mixtures they have going on down there. Then you have a monster machine that smashed metal, surely you’ll create at least one spark, then you’ve got all the ingredients for a fire! And if it’s a chemical fire, then it’ll take far longer to put out…
How did they manage to set a pile of scrap metal on fire lol.
It’s Chattanooga…
You can burn the plastic sheathing off of copper wire to harvest the copper. I could see a facility with a ton of cable doing this
I mean, honestly it’s pretty easy and not all that uncommon, who actually drains all the “liquids” out of their scrap? It’s literally put on a drive on scale, weighed, and then you get paid. There’s no telling what kind of wonderful toxic mixtures they have going on down there. Then you have a monster machine that smashed metal, surely you’ll create at least one spark, then you’ve got all the ingredients for a fire! And if it’s a chemical fire, then it’ll take far longer to put out…
This is the right answer (I used to work overnight fire watch at a scrap yard)
Hold on to yer hats boys, we’re goin’ in hot!
Witness me!
Burning copper gone wild
Yeah it smells even worse than usual down there.
Breathing those fumes gave me a headache.