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Flour Bomb

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First a bit of background. My Father was a Fireman in Lancaster England. and when I was a lot younger took myself and my brother to a demonstration of fire safety at the Fire Brigade training school. One of the demonstrations was how dangerous a dust explosion could be. They demonstrated the point by blowing a Safe door off using only a bag of Flour and a candle. Now as I have said this was a long time ago and I like to think I am now wiser. But when we got home I went into the backyard and built a small fire beneath the roof of the stone outhouse, climbed on to the roof clutching a small bag of flour. Then I opened the bag. leaned over so I could see the fire and Poured out the flour. Of course this resulted in a magnificent dust explosion. the fireball reached up higher than the 3 story house. the result of all this is a happy hour trying to explain why I no longer had eyebrows or a fringe. Thankfully that was the only damage and my hair grew back before I had to go back to school

Submitted on 09/14/2002

Submitted by: Ian Jackson
Reference: It happened to me

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Bill said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Keen: lets try out what was just demonstrated to be very dangerous!


Duncan said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
A nice little PA that could easily have been the full DA. Many people have been killed by dust explosions in my hometown, in grain elevators.


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