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    The Buncefield fire was a major fire at an oil storage facility that started at 06:01 UTC on Sunday 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal...
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    Accessed August 2007 "Buncefield tank 'was overflowing'". BBC News. 9 May 2006. Retrieved 5 June 2007. "2005: Massive fire at Buncefield oil depot". 11 December...
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  • Schiphol Airport, Netherlands, killed 11 and injured 15. December 11–13 – Buncefield fire, a major explosion at Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal in Hemel Hempstead...
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    David Cameron to the post of shadow minister for public health. The Buncefield fire occurred on 11 December 2005 and led to some 2,700 claims for compensation...
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  • applied in the investigation of many high profile accidents such as Buncefield fire, Piper Alpha, TWA Flight 800, and the Petrobras 36 platform. FLACS...
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  • Deflagration to detonation transition (category Industrial fires and explosions)
    Phillips disaster of 1989 in Pasadena, Texas Damage observed in the Buncefield fire 2020 Beirut explosions The phenomenon is exploited in pulse detonation...
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    Flixborough disaster (category Industrial fires and explosions in the United Kingdom)
    11.2 t and 60t) and for the Buncefield fire (Fig 3.4.1). Flixborough gives a higher estimated over-pressure than Buncefield. A leak had developed on the...
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    completely empty oil tankers, refinery tanks, and vessels, such as the Buncefield fire in the United Kingdom in 2005, where the blast wave woke people 150...
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    33″N 0°25′26.33″W / 51.7637028°N 0.4239806°W / 51.7637028; -0.4239806 Buncefield oil depot is operated by Hertfordshire Oil Storage Ltd (HOSL) and officially...
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    Esso Longford disaster of 1998, the 2005 Buncefield fire, the 2009 Jaipur fire, the 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire, the 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion...
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    assist operations at the Buncefield fire in Hertfordshire in 2005 and nationwide flooding in 2007. In July 2010, the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service began...
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    Buncefield oil terminal, 2005 – The UK's largest peacetime fire broke out on 11 December 2005 at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal at Buncefield...
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  • Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services. April 2017. p. 5. Retrieved 16 January 2021. "Channel 4 - News - Buncefield fire destroyed crime data"....
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    large-scale nuclear war. The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot into the stratosphere, where it can block some direct sunlight...
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    Texas City refinery explosion (category Fires in Texas)
    other disasters such as Piper Alpha, the Esso Longford gas plant fire and the Buncefield fire. Control of ignition sources also failed, as demonstrated by...
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    or fire and rescue service CFOs do attend some operational incidents. Hertfordshire's CFO, Roy Wilsher, took command at the Buncefield oil depot fire in...
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    1974. In 2006 Adler and Allan were employed by Total to clear the Buncefield fire site. Roland, Denise (22 September 2014). "Flood clean-up group Adler...
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    insolvency in 2002. The fire of 11 December 2005 at Buncefield, Hemel Hempstead, was a major disaster. Hertfordshire's Chief Fire Officer, Roy Wilsher,...
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  • Health and Safety Executive (category Industrial fires and explosions in the United Kingdom)
    small and large, including major incidents such as the explosion and fire at Buncefield in 2005. Though it formerly reported to the Health and Safety Commission...
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    response role exists, which has been used three times - at the 2005 Buncefield fire, the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic eruption and 2012 Total Elgin gas...
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    building structures. December 2005: The Buncefield fire: A major fire caused by a series of explosions at the Buncefield oil storage facility causing 45 injuries...
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  • Explosions in Delta State Kill More Than 500". "Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture and Fire Near Carlsbad, New Mexico August 19, 2000" (PDF). Retrieved 27 November 2021...
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    25 July 2020. "Storage tank protection" (PDF). Angus fire. Retrieved 25 July 2020. "Buncefield report". HSE. Retrieved 25 July 2020. "Vopak Tank Terminals"...
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    the explosions and fires at the Buncefield oil storage and transfer depot, Hemel Hempstead, on 11 December 2005" (PDF). Buncefield Investigation. Health...
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    stability of volcanoes. She has also studied the emissions from Buncefield fire at the Buncefield oil depot in 2005 and is interested in the mercury cycle,...
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  • brigades called in to attend the Buncefield oil depot fire near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, in December 2005. Fire appliances from Orsett, Hadleigh...
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    Dench had been overlooked by local media only because of the major Buncefield fire which occurred that day. After the success of the Rex restoration,...
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  • seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc. The nature of the show closely...
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    Date Sculptor Material Source Coordinates Phoenix Gateway sculpture Buncefield fire Roundabout at the junction of the A414 and Green Lane 2009 Jose Zavala...
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    include various floods such as the 2007 United Kingdom floods, the Buncefield fire, the Stockline Plastics factory explosion in Glasgow and the 7 July...
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