Community | February 07, 2010 | 33 comments

Connecticut blast causes "mass casualties," official says

source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/07/connecticut.explosion/index.html?hpt=T1

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This is breaking news and not much is known other than mass causality's have occured at this power plant!
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33 comments // Connecticut blast causes "mass casualties," official says

  • blaino
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      blaino  

    • The link says there five deaths and twelve injured. "mass casualties" is an over statement, it's still an awful accident though.

    • 2 years ago
  • device80
  • kennymotown
  • HellastOne
  • Davidod
  • lifestudentno83
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      lifestudentno83  

    • I didn't see any confirmed reports in either the national or local news for mass casualties. Also, I was not questioning your point, I was inquiring as to who you were addressing.

      Reports right now are too sketchy to say the blast caused mass casualties, so for now we are in agreement.

    • 2 years ago
  • bellig
  • _M_I_K_E_
  • sweding
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      sweding  

    • It's so unsettling to see this on Current. I read Current everyday and seeing an article about the town I'm living in is just freaky. I go to school in Middletown and I could feel it as I was walking outside. Police/ambulance sirens have been shrieking nonstop all day. I've been hearing about how other students saw smoke billowing out over the horizon. It's just so freaky to see an article that hits close to home.

      Some info about the power plant itself.

      "Kleen Energy Systems, LLC’s new 620 MW Combined Cycle Electric Generating Facility is located in Middletown, Connecticut. Unlike older power plants that are less than 30 percent efficient, the new gas-fired, combined cycle power plant is designed to operate at over 60 percent efficiency. The combined cycle process achieves this increased efficiency by sending waste heat from the gas turbine generator, that would normally be lost, to a steam turbine to generate even more electricity.

      The plant is expected to come on line by June 1, 2010."

      http://www.highsteel.com/project_gallery/building_and_industrial/KleenEnergyPowe...

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  
    • sweding:

      How big a town is middletown? Thats two users of current that live there. I hope for the best in your community, and those that have been lost that their family's have my heart felt sorrow.

    • 2 years ago
  • JonRaymond
  • dmitridal
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      dmitridal  

    • I live in MIddletown, less than a mile away from this site, and we did not even feel or hear this event, however it is a major fault line here and people 20 and thirty miles away felt the ground shake and heard the blast. This plant is a disaster from day one, I and other local activists have been fighting to stop this falsely labled Kleen NRG plant from building massive lateral well arms under the Connecticut river (which will most certainly have a negative impact on the benthic environment (aka riverbed)), then they built multiple pipelines across the city though various wetlands and the main downtown, and right in front of my house in fact, now phil armetta's baby, who incidentally was convicted in a federal trash scandal, has blown up and killed several people and injured many, many more. when will we learn!!

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • bushama
  • ras_menelik
  • kennymotown
  • bailey78
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • ras_menelik:

      The Nuclear lobby hires terrorists? Well, then, the Gas people can be expected to strike back. They have plenty of ammo looks like. Bummer. Just goes to show ya, those who live by the combustion sword... not to mention it but any further advertising telling us about the safety of natural gas is wasted.

      The distance between 60% and 100% gas power plant efficiency is not 40%.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • mykuh
  • kennymotown
  • ras_menelik
  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • Apparently there are more victims then just the two, the story is still developing and the plant was in it's testing faze and getting ready too go on line.

    • 2 years ago
  • MirrorLake
  • versasrev
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      versasrev  
    • MirrorLake:

      "Casualty" can mean death however, it does not inherently mean such.

      1. Military.

      a. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
      b. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.

      2. one who is injured or killed in an accident: There were no casualties in the traffic accident.

      3. any person, group, thing, etc., that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event: Their house was a casualty of the fire.

      4. a serious accident, esp. one involving bodily injury or death.

      http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/casualty

    • 2 years ago
  • MirrorLake
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      MirrorLake  
    • versasrev:

      I know what casualty means. Announcing that there are "mass casualties" without actually knowing the number of casualties is bad reporting. Only 50 people were reported to be working there, so how could there possibly be "mass casualties"?

      I'm just pointing out that the headline is hyperbolic.

    • 2 years ago
  • lifestudentno83
  • MirrorLake
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      MirrorLake  
    • lifestudentno83:

      Well, when I looked at the CNN article, the words "mass casualties" were nowhere to be found so I was assuming the poster added that. Perhaps he just copied the article's original headline, which was changed before I looked at it.

      Since my first comment, the title now reads: "Police retract statement that 2 died in Connecticut explosion." The newly edited article contains this (added) information: "Middlesex Hospital in Middletown said it received 11 patients from the explosion."

      So, I think this proves my point.

    • 2 years ago
  • ocanada
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      ocanada  
    • MirrorLake:

      To the families of those working there it would be more than enough. However they shouldn't have been made unduly worried by the media before the facts of the matter were known. Neither party comes out smelling like sunshine.

    • 2 years ago
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