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Fireground audio, video & details from Friday’s auto salvage business fire in Detroit
Flint Journal photo by Sarah A. Miller. Click the image for more pictures and details.
For the second time in about 24-hours a Michigan auto salvage and parts business has burned, setting off numerous small explosions. Friday’s fire in Detroit, went to three-alarms and kept firefighters busy for 10 hours.
The fire Saturday was reported just after 4:30 PM about 90-minutes after Inter-City Auto Parts closed for the day. The business is at 2308 Toronto Street. The salvage yard and two buildings are surrounded by railroad tracks and a neighborhood of single family homes.
On the two video clips on this page you can hear numerous explosions. A battalion chief told a local TV station there were at least 50 such blasts from propane and acetylene tanks. Shrapnel from one of the tanks smashed a window of a fire truck on the scene.
The fire is reported to have started in the office of the business and spread to the nearby warehouse. The tanks that exploded were stored inside that warehouse.
No injuries were reported.
WEYI-TV image of metal that went though the window of a Flint fire truck. Click above for more pictures.
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I’ve seen something like that before. That to me looks like there is a good chance it is the cylinder wall of a propane cylinder used on a fork lift.