Be prepared for ethanol and biodiesel incidents

摘要

I am writing in reference to "Ethanol-Blended Fuels: The Basics" by Greg Hayes and "Biodiesels: The Preplan" by A.K. Rosenhan (November 2009). Our fire department has had two separate incidents that pertain to the biodiesel and ethanol fires. The first one occurred in January 2008. We have a biodiesel plant in our city. At 3:10 p.m., the transfer building at the plant blew up. We had three seriously injured workers and a major fire on our hands. We were able to rescue the workers while we struggled to battle the fire.