Barrel washes up with hazardous material
(CNS): On Monday evening, the Cayman Islands Fire Service ignited a military flare inside a barrel that washed ashore near Pirates Cave in Bodden Town. According to a government release, CIFS responded to a 911 call about the barrel around 5:34pm on 20 March, which triggered a multi-agency response that included the RCIPS, Hazard Management Cayman Islands, the Cayman Islands Coast Guard and the Department of Environmental Health.
The area was quickly cordoned off to allow a thorough on-scene assessment by responding agencies, the release said. It was determined that the barrel, which was labelled “phosphorous”, contained a military-grade flare, which was ignited within the barrel.
RCIPS and CIFS officers continued to monitor the barrel until around 1:15am this morning, Tuesday 21 March, at which time the fire was extinguished.
CIFS is currently making preparations for the barrel’s proper and safe disposal in collaboration with the National Roads Authority, officials said.
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Straight to the dump no doubt.
Was this the ‘explosive devices’ reported on that bastion of reporting truth CMR? I mean her beloved cult followers imagined it was a bomb 🙄
When you light a match does it not explode? That’s the phosphorus. Now consider how much bigger the explosion is with a search and rescue flare, which essentially is what was found. It’s a common occurrence for these flares to wash up on beaches and there have been reports of injuries to those who have handled them. Damn right they’re “explosive devices”. Imagine if a child picked it up.
https://eu.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/blogs/watchdog/2016/04/30/explosives-on-the-beach/83489220/
Fact that it burns doesn’t make it an explosive.
Cult followers is right. Someone I know is in a chat group headed up by one of them and the level of hysteria about this was amazing. They promote whatever she says as truth.
Yay! A happy ending. Thank you Fire Services, RCIPS, HMCI, CICG and DEH for your response and efforts.
Let us not forget HMCI funding when the budget is created; Hazmat identification chemicals, kits, reagents, sampling pumps, rad meters, cannisters, Dräger sampling tubes and detection systems and the training that goes with the use of all of the above, is not cheap. When it comes to Hazmat response, there should be first, second and third string responders at the very least.
HMCI doesn’t do it.
It’s DEH that has the lead in Hazmat.
They have the equipment. HMCI has some cots and tarps, thats about it.
Does HMCI still have the Ebola tent?
Removal involving the NRA…. I smell a traffic jam in the making