@phoneboy They employ a very large chunk of Wood county. Second to the US Government. (Income tax processing center)
@33mhz 10 acre facility filled with God only knows what has been burning since Saturday. Dupont stores chemicals in it. No-one's talking.
@indigo Holding her own. Has plenty of oxygen and the next door neighbor is keeping an eye on her.
This is how heavy the smoke is, still.
People are being hospitalized left and right for lung inflammation and such. No evacuation order was ever given.
Ahhh. Things are a lot worse than anyone will admit..
A fire has been burning at a warehouse that’s become a dump for things Dupont can’t legally get rid of for more than 4 days in Parkersburg, WV.
I’ll be collecting all the updates I’ve found on social media here. The warehouse used to be the Ames Factory (I think they made shovels there), but for years has been a dump for things that Dupont can’t legally get rid of.
The state doesn’t know what was in there, but there is possibilities of any number of these products being stored there – PVC, Nylon, Carbon black, Titanium dioxide, Fiberglass, Maleic Anhydride TLV 0.1 ppm, Formaldehyde, PTFE (Teflon), Styrene, Acrylonitrile, Polybutylene Terephthalate, and/or Acrylic Sheet all of which are not good things when burned.
Edit: Update from Reddit “There is also an underground storage tank from when it was ames that is full of trichloroethyene, lead, ethylbenzene, and toluene that is leaking.
The fire suppression system for the warehouse failed last winter because one of the pipes froze and busted. They never had it fixed.”
Edit 2: Another update from an insider that used to work for Dupont. IEI, who owns the building is a shell company owned by Dupont. Also, from a different insider “Saurabh Naik (Ed Note: The official owner of IEI) has dozens of LLC Shell companies like IEI that he funnels stuff through. He makes everyone that works from him sign an NDA.
You’d be Shocked at some of the stuff that gets stored in his warehouses. You get everything from polymers to toxic Dust to drums of acid all thrown into the same sections of buildings. I’ve personally seen warehouses wall-to-wall with this stuff with literally no room to walk around in. If a Fire breaks out in one of his buildings then there is no way to put it out short of letting the entire thing Burn to the ground. Apparently this old AMES building was one of his worst and he’s already received many citations and Warnings about how things are stored and the general maintenance of the facility. Expect shutdowns of satellite warehouses soon and probably a couple bankruptcies declared as Well.”
The fire is still burning after four days and there's a media blackout. Lots of very worried and pissed off folks in my hometown. No-one will say exactly what was stored there and why they refuse to answer questions.
