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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A scary morning for workers in Metro Center after a propane tank catches fire behind a warehouse. Just after 5:30am, a panic as an early morning inferno lights up the sky before sunrise. A 1000-gallon propane tank was on fire behind the Keneco Warehouse off Great Circle Road. Thankfully, the workers inside all made it to safety, but the danger wasn't over.
"In a tank it is a liquid where the fire is, so if heating up the liquid, it makes it expand," says Nashville Fire Dept. District Chief Buddy Byers. "It would be a large explosion if the tank goes off, so we've evacuated."
All employees working in the surrounding businesses were also forced out of their offices and firefighters were ordered to fight the fire from a distance. Fire officials were fearing the worst: an explosion that, in a matter of seconds, could scorch everything around it.
"It would look like a small nuclear device when it goes up," says Assistant Fire Chief Richard White. "It would have spread out around the ground and mushroom up over the top."
Thankfully, that didn't happen. After 2.5 hours, firefighters were able to put out the flames and turn off the propane gas. The fire started underneath the propane tank. Officials are still working to find a cause.
"In a tank it is a liquid where the fire is, so if heating up the liquid, it makes it expand," says Nashville Fire Dept. District Chief Buddy Byers. "It would be a large explosion if the tank goes off, so we've evacuated."
All employees working in the surrounding businesses were also forced out of their offices and firefighters were ordered to fight the fire from a distance. Fire officials were fearing the worst: an explosion that, in a matter of seconds, could scorch everything around it.
"It would look like a small nuclear device when it goes up," says Assistant Fire Chief Richard White. "It would have spread out around the ground and mushroom up over the top."
Thankfully, that didn't happen. After 2.5 hours, firefighters were able to put out the flames and turn off the propane gas. The fire started underneath the propane tank. Officials are still working to find a cause.
Thursday, January 17 2013, 07:50 PM CST
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Tishomingo County voters OK beer, alcohol sales
May 22, 2013 23:38 GMT
IUKA, Miss. (AP) -- Tishomingo County is the latest Mississippi jurisdiction to legalize alcohol sales.
Voters approved the sale of liquor, wine and beer Tuesday, reports the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/13JCcix).
It wasn't clear referendums would pass until affidavit ballots were counted Wednesday.
With more than half Tishomingo County's voters casting ballots, legalizing alcohol passed by 42 votes, while legalizing beer and light wine passed by 73. The county borders Alabama and Tennessee.
Lawmakers legalized liquor at a proposed resort at the county's Bay Springs Lake in 2010, but it wasn't built.
Greene County voters legalized beer sales last year, while Corinth, New Albany and Senatobia have legalized alcohol sales under a 2012 law that allows cities to hold votes.
Mississippi has 13 remaining counties that allow no beer or alcohol sales.
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