Disaster that Dwight Williams described as "absolutely unbelieveable."
Falling demand threatens to overwhelm available crude oil storage worldwide.
Foam chemistry is a delicate balancing act. A large component of this year’s Xtreme Industrial Fire & Hazard Training conducted at Brayton Fire Training Field involved acquainting industrial firefighters with the conflicting factors that make new fire foams difficult to develop.
Williams Fire & Hazard Control was ready, willing, and able to extinguish the aftermath of a crude oil boilover in Nicaragua that left two 150-foot diameter storage tanks in flames.
A lost friend is recalled on the anniversary of the worst boilover disaster on record.
A large crowd of power plant workers and local residents gathered to watch a burning crude oil storage tank. Had the observers better understood a devastating phenomenon known as boilover, the eruption of steam and hot oil that followed would not have claimed more than 150 lives.
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