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Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Smoke containing soot and turpentine residue rises from the facility.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Thick, black smoke rises from the facility. (Photograph was taken south from Presidents Street in Savannah).
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Cleanup equipment and damaged and destroyed tanks.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Overflight view of the facility and the Oak Tree apartments nearby.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Drainage pipe where chemicals from the Powell Duffryn facility are pumped into a barge and drainage ditch that runs along the side the facility.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Incident responders and their equipment next to the damaged storage tanks.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. pH meter kit used to monitor pH during the Powell Duffryn incident.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. The damaged tanks involved in the fire and explosions.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Black clouds fill the sky over the facility. (Photograph taken from Presidents street in Savannah).
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Overflight view of the facility and surrounding areas.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Cleanup workers, responders, and equipment.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Chemical storage tanks that were either damaged or destroyed during the fire and explosion.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Overhead of summary of the Powell Duffryn incident.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Overflight of the tanks destroyed in the fire and explosion, and a dried up stream of water and chemicals leaves its mark on the grounds of the facility.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Smoke rises from the facility as the fire department tries to extinguish the blaze.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Six tanks were destroyed in the fire and explosion. The 600,000 gallons of chemicals involved were raw turpentine, sodium hydrosulfite, and ANTIBLAZE ( a fire retardant).
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. Cleanup and incident responders at their contamination area near the Oak Tree apartments.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. U.S. Coast Guard responder and pump.
Powell Duffryn chemical storage tank incident, Savannah, Georgia, April 1995. A responder samples the chemicals on a barge during the incident.
Tanker PRESIDENTE RIVERA incident, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, June 1989. The PRESIDENTE RIVERA.
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