mumomonty

Hi all, been reports of large explosion(s) in Hemel Hempstead. Tune in if you've got Sky News. We haven't. Looks big. Nothing on news here at mo though. Ring home if you have family. :scared:

Ozzidoc

It's at the fuel depot. No need to "ring home" unless you have friends/people working there or close by.

mumomonty

Sorry meant to say that; apologies. Dont' want to jam it all up and what can you do from here anyway?

Den13

Police are saying it was an accident.

Casualties are 'minimal'. looks awful, but a fire at a fuel depot is gonna look horrific and burn for days.

Good luck to everyone working and living there.

turkeytickler

Just been on the webcam to my parents - they live 20 miles north of HH - luckily the wind is blowing south!! They were woken up by the explosion - my dad thought it was the central heating exploding!

God it looks nasty though.... 3 days to put it out..... the car muppets are already queuing up and panic buying petrol!!

Sega Mad

Bang goes our carbon emissions quota for the next coupla years!!!!

It looks apocalyptic from here.....way spooky! :scared: :scared:

turkeytickler

can you give us a photie?

turkeytickler

SHIT i cant beleive i just said that....been here too long - sorry - please could you post a photo?

Sega Mad

Not now cos its night time!

BBC news has some top pics if you go to the website

www.bbc.co.uk

turkeytickler

thanks - yeah been watching the streaming coverage on news24 - i was just curious to see what it looked like from central london.....

Andrew Cross

I live in west london near heathrow and i heard it. Thought it was an aircraft or something, big bang and the window shook... that must have been one hell of a bang nearer to the depot.... :scared:

silvermuse

thank god it was early sunday morning and no one was around!

JoannaD

registered 2.2 on the richter scale and looked like computer graphics on a film!