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Industrial accident

by Konstantinos Kourtidis, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece

Burning of the facilities of an industry producing food packaging material on 22.7.2011 (NE Greece). Many hundred tonnes of PET and polypropylene as well as around 1 tn of PVC was burned. In this short footage, the smoke from the fire which is burning for around 4 hours. It continued burning for several hours. A still image is available at http://www.imaggeo.net/view/938 .