About 27,000 pounds of Ms. Degree’s spray deodorant exploded in the Northeast Oklahoma After a semi truck caught fire on Friday.
According to the WFTV 9 news report, the strange explosion occurred at around 5 am at Love’s Travel Stop near Big Cabin town. The site is located approximately 56 miles northeast of Tulsa.
After the driver said he had started to experience braking problems, the truck drove into the location. According to firefighters who responded to the incident, these problems caused the tires to catch fire, which eventually spread to the highly flammable spray cans inside the trailer. The driver tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher, but the speed was not fast enough.
say Fox According to news on the 23rd, local fire chief Kevin Oakley described the burnt jars everywhere at the scene, “like a war zone”.
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“It looks like the Roman candle is going out,” Oakley told the media. “And you are going through everything. It looks like a war zone. Especially at 5 o’clock in the morning.”
Fox 23 reporter Scott Martin shared various photos from the scene. In a tweet, he shared a video of an ongoing fire and described the aerosol canister as “exploding like fireworks.”
“I’m just shocked by how it is… deodorant,” a witness at the truck stop told Fox23.
The local fire department summoned an unspecified company to help clean up the site of the destroyed cans. There were no reports of injuries.
Martin wrote in another tweet: “Can I save it? I have covered everything? It’s not like the @Degree deodorant explosion that carries 27,00 pounds a day and a half.” “In a way, this scene It smells cute.”
In recent days, the scene near Big Cabin is not the only explosion that shocked Oklahoma. On Thursday morning, firefighters received a call about an explosion. marijuana Farm near Mead, about 93 miles north of Dallas. According to News 12, the farm owner Harold Lowcy suffered severe burns and had to be taken to a hospital in Plano, Texas.
An official told News 12: “It was called an explosion and the building was on fire. When we arrived here, the building was completely involved.”
H&P Farms is a licensed medical marijuana cultivation facility. Workers on the farm reported that the explosion was caused by a spark that ignited the liquid butane tank.According to reports, there are 300 gallons of the substance in the facility’s premises
The official added: “Just when we arrived here, the propane tank popped up suddenly, so we were worried about another explosion.”[The fire] In the building that was housed in the main building, none of the others were harmed. “
